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...that the mainland of peace was only a small island. It might be that what he hoped was that the Northwest Passage to the future was only an arm of the Hudson. But last week it was plain that the U. S. was sailing according to his chart, plainer still that his confidence in it was unshaken...
...suffering from gallstones went to a textbook of surgery to study his disease, he. would find things like this: "Whereas in cases of simple cholelithiasis cholecystostomy is the operation of choice, in cases of acute calculous cholecystitis cholecystectomy is to be preferred." In plainer English: In cases of simple gallstones, it is best to remove the stones and leave the gall bladder alone; but if a patient has an inflamed gall bladder as well as stones, it is wiser to remove both stones and bladder together...
...they were prepared to devote much more than was asked to national defense. The News Chronicle called the budget "Timid and tinkering." The Daily Mirror'?, acid "Cassandra" wrote: "It's like its creator-chubby, cheery, ineffective, unimaginative and hopelessly inadequate. It limps far behind public demand." In plainer sight than ever was the plan of liberal Economist John Maynard Keynes to appropriate a part of everybody's salary, "hold it" for him until after...
From last week's "most authoritative" figures it was plainer than ever that Air Marshal Goring's Air Force was built for one purpose: an assault on the Allies with emphasis on heavy bombardment. The higher percentage of pursuit in the Allied forces illustrated the fact that France and Britain have been building a defensive force to fight off Germany's bombers, have lagged on the weapons the Allies need to strike a heavy counterblow...
...sensed in Col. Lindbergh's speech a sympathy with Nazi ideals which I thought existed but could not bring myself to believe was really there." (Snapped Hugh Johnson next day at Mrs. Roosevelt: "That is exactly the kind of stuff that got us into the war in 1917.") Plainer people began to sound off. Ex-Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney called Lindbergh's speech "impertinence." Michigan's Senator Prentiss Brown called it imperialistic. A Reserve Officer chaplain in Seattle spoke of "Herr von Lindbergh." Sculptor Suzanne Silvercruys of New York City told Canadians she was glad her memorial...