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Thus last week did tiny Lamar (pop- 3,000), prepare to welcome back its most successful native son, Senator Harry S. Truman, and to watch him being notified, in one of the most outworn of U.S. political ceremonies, that he is the Democratic nominee for Vice President. Lamar's 3,000 had at first been incredulous when the celebration was announced. After all, Harry Truman had come back only once in the 56 years since he left Lamar as a four-year-old. But Lamar buckled down, raised $5,000 for expenses. The women of Lamar...
...carried on. " 'When I make up my mind to deliver spuds,' he remarked afterward to Chapman, 'I have no intention of letting a pomme de terre me.' Chapman took no notice." The Retort Discourteous. O'Nolan is in a class by himself in adapting outworn instruments to his journalistic purpose...
Aged cars and outworn farm machinery, long parked on flat acres to make them unhealthy for landing enemy aircraft, had been removed for salvage. Stout wires hung alongside broad highways for the same purpose had disappeared. Plate glass was replacing boarded-up shop windows. The Great Western Railway had restored 510 station names erased during the invasion scare. Trams, busses, subways and autos were removing some shades from their lights. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard called for abolition of the blackout...
This stunning turnabout was official. William Norman, executive secretary of the New Jersey Communist Party, made the statement in the Daily Worker, Manhattan's mouthpiece for the U. S. Communist Party. Cooed he: ". . . Outworn conceptions, if carried over to other historical periods, can prove of incalculable harm to the cause of progress and the chief issue today, the nation's war. Such a misconception continues to exist with regard to Frank Hague and so-called Hagueism...
...America's great men of the Revolution, Jefferson was the one who was attuned most perfectly to its meaning: that men, for the first time in history, should be set free from the outworn restraints of feudalism and primogeniture, allowed to work out their own destiny without exploitation by government. He did not believe, as his words in the Declaration of Independence seemed to say, that all men were equally good; he did believe that all men were born worthy of an equal chance. Then the U.S. would move forward, to vistas beyond the imagination, under the leadership...