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...Marshall Field's leftist PM, the whole inquiry was treated as a mere smear-as if no one cared to know what had happened at Pearl Harbor. To people who read John O'Donnell's poison penmanship in the Roosevelt-hating New York Daily News and Washington Times-Herald, it was a war criminal trial, with Franklin Roosevelt, the culprit, tried and convicted daily. Sample O'Donnell: "One becomes appalled and frightened at the one-man, all-out ignorance and mental arrogance of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . . The evidence builds up to the simple brutal...
...stand accused of favoring the "Führer principle" as a result of this strange misquotation in your Oct. 29 issue: "Business Week, which had looked uneasily on Franklin Roosevelt for twelve years, came right out and said that what the country apparently needs is 'a return to one-man government for a while...
...Judging by tales from the grass roots, the country would welcome a return to one-man government for a while...
...your more careful staff readers of Business Week well know, this magazine could never be imagined as saying that any country needs one-man government...
Once inside, John Lewis put on his best virtuoso performance. His meaty frame shook with laughter, trembled with scorn, vibrated with anger, froze in righteous dignity. And all the while his deft fingers tugged at the strings, rigging the conference into a one-man show...