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...portent came last week, when the President fought with his onetime friend Jim Farley for control of New York's 94 delegates to the Democratic National Convention (see p. 20), Another, perhaps more significant, had passed unnoticed except by the close observers: into an office in the new wing of the White House, as one of the "anonymous assistants," had moved swarthy, soft-voiced David K. Niles, political tipster and fixer extraordinary, a smooth operator who wangled $500,000 from the United Mine Workers for the 1936 Democratic war chest and who was undercover man for the New Deal...
Thoughtful businessmen breathed a profound sigh of relief. Industrial mobilization took the first real step away from Washington, rather than toward it, since World War II began. WPB began to decentralize itself. This blessed portent was part of WPB's shift in emphasis from expansion-for-later to production-with-what-we-have-now. The present U.S. war plant is already devouring raw materials faster than they can be mined. Therefore, Washington's No. 1 job is no longer production, or conversion, or contract-letting, but raw-materials flow. So WPB began to strip itself down to that...
...Louis: Excitement is mounting to a fever pitch here....At first people hugged their radios, half-confused, half-scared, but elated at the epochal portent of the struggle-elated in the sense that a fighter, once in the ring, feels exhilarated....Theater audiences sing The Star-Spangled Banner lustily, applause drowning out the last strains....Recruits swarming the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard offices-Missouri draft boards announced they can supply immediately 8,000 more draftees in Class...
Between two fires, Tanner last week appeared to have thrown his whole short bulk in with the Nazis. This was an evil portent for the Social Democratic Party−and for democratic Finland. How matters were going was made clearer at week's end, when President Risto Ryti proposed that elections, due next year, be postponed until 1944 because of the "emergency...
...hungry Athenians the historic heights of the Acropolis last week offered a mystic portent of hope. Atop the serene ruins fluttered three flags: the native blue-&-white of the tough, proud erstwhile kingdom, flanked on either side by the arrogant swastika and its impudent Italian companion piece...