Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noticeable to me, as it must have been to many other Americans of Irish birth or descent, was TIME'S (Sept.11 issue) omission of Ireland's leaders in the list of those of other European countries as of September, 1939 . . . In her position as a mother country and considering her present political status, Ireland (especially Eire) would seem to be inadequately represented by the named governors of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Nor can a citizen of Eire, as exemplified by Cinemactor Errol Flynn, be reasonably designated a Briton when Cinemactor Raymond Massey is designated a Canadian. . . . Seemingly...
...bold Irish mug of the Ambassador to Great Britain appears again on TIME'S cover [Sept. 18] or before he runs for President, I hope Kathleen or her handsome mother can do something about those hornrimmed glasses he affects. Some Kennedys think themselves wise as owls. Joe must want to look like...
...dragged-out fight makes embargo-repeal unlikely unless such potential horrors as the bombing of Westminster Abbey or the destruction of Paris swing U. S. sentiment; 2) while delaying tactics probably mean victory for the Isolationists, the U. S. public will stand for no filibuster; 3) he must join with his fellow-Republicans in holding down Bob La Follette, who is bent on stealing the show for the Progressives. Well he knew, too, that the Administration's 49-vote majority was a paper majority, that paper majorities are like paper profits unless quickly taken...
Well he knew that he had many friends in & out of the Senate, yet no intimate friend, was even now as lonely as Franklin Roosevelt since the death of crabby, brilliant, gnomish Louis McHenry Howe. Coldly he could figure that this was a fight he must win, for not simply the Presidency but his Senate seat was at stake. Many a Michigan boss would like to see a more employable man in Washington...
...realize, I was asked, that when I made a speech or wrote an editorial I was quoted by the Republican press only because of the fact that I was formerly a member of his administration? It took a minute to answer that one as gently as I knew I must...