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Poverty: (The speech's most eloquent passage): "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but, given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation...
...Floods in the region of the famed Lena Gold Fields engulfed 70 villages, last week, raced nearer and nearer to the gold fields...
...highly educated and patriotic native Chinese wrote me recently: "What China needs most of all is a Mussolini." I am inclined to believe that Feng measures nearer to this admirable standard of patriotism and exemplary life than any other of the Chinese leaders now conspicuous...
...chairman, who makes an oration to start things going. This orator must choose a subject upon which the convention holds a unanimous opinion. A "keynote" speech, therefore, is by definition a solemn prating about undisputed things. The more vague or remote the subject upon which the audience agrees, the nearer to the brink of absurdity will the orator totter in his effort to be impressive. So it was with Keynoter Fess at Kansas City, who sounded crass and flatulent on the vague topic of Republican Prosperity. And so it was at Houston with Keynoter Bowers, who combined pedantry with abuse...
Inasmuch as any medical doctor immediately upon receipt of his license to practice medicine may, without any further training, practice Optometry (the science of examining eyes for refractive errors), it would be far nearer right had your correspondent said that oculists are trained at "irregular schools of optometry." Be fair TIME...