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Right Place, Right Time. Fourth Ward arithmetic was hardly adequate to measure the opportunities for influence in postwar Washington. In Kansas City or Boston, a pol could do a friend a favor by fixing a traffic ticket, knocking down a tax assessment or awarding a municipal contract. But all these things were clear-cut acts, and relatively easy to rule legal or illegal. The complications of the federal operation opened up new frontiers for the pol...
...Francisco (POL) 5, Cleveland...
...FDRevering New York Post, which doesn't like Bob Taft, the story rated five columns. The headline: SENATOR TAFT'S 7-DAY DIET-HOW HE POL-LOWS HIS OWN ADVICE TO 'EAT LESS MEAT...
...Zaslavsky's scream against Lenin only brought Lenin's censors in greater, more ferocious force, to hound him from cellar to cellar. He changed the name of his newspaper from Den (Day) to Noch (Night) and then to Pol Noch (Half-night). But before long, darkness engulfed it altogether. Darkness also engulfed a number of his Jewish Bundist colleagues. It was then that Zaslavsky "reexamined his political beliefs" and threw himself on the mercy of his erstwhile enemies, the Bolsheviks. He became one of them, and has since been among their most zealous servitors...
...Walter Lippmann's U.S. Foreign Pol icy: "If I have any criticism of the book, and it is a minor one, it is that in pointing out how effective Britain's naval might was in making the Monroe Doctrine effective . . . the author rather overlooks the immense help to Britain's aims . . . given by American good will and purpose...