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Candidate Dewey had divided his first campaign trip into three precisely wrapped parcels. Parcel No. 1 was set up at industrial Pittsburgh, thus giving the Governor a chance to point out firmly that the New Deal has gotten exactly nowhere with the planning vital to reconversion-although "we are electing a President most of whose term will be in peacetime...
...Parcel No. 2, at Springfield, enabled Tom Dewey to pay the traditional Republican respects at the tomb of the first Republican President. But Parcel No. 3 was the main show; at St. Louis Candidate Dewey had assembled the 25 other Republican Governors of the U.S. This gave him an opportunity to remind the voters that these Republicans "govern three-fourths of the American people...
...matter-of-fact attitude to ward money. For example, to give a tip to a hotel maid by handing her the cold and bare coins is to show one's lack of breeding; one will wrap the money in clean white paper, and if possible put this little parcel on a tray. Perhaps the Christian people are used to it now, but lifting the offering to the sound of clinking and jingling coins is often quite shocking to the casual visitor...
Mark Gayn was born in 1909 at Barim, Manchuria. Most of the incidents he records in this personal history were part &; parcel of modern China's terrible 30 years' struggle to become a united nation...
Footnote. In Pocatello, Idaho, postal authorities mulled over the weight ceiling which forbade mailing his new size 15 brogans to Marine Pfc. Lawrence I. Hanson, somewhere in the Pacific (TIME, April 24). Wrote an impatient woman: "Did you ever think of sending each shoe in a separate parcel...