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...Victim No. 1 for the great purge of the Democratic Party. Franklin Roosevelt said nothing publicly, but Mr. McNutt's obedient satellite, Governor Maurice Clifford Townsend of Indiana, announced it last July from the White House steps (TIME, July 26), repeated it last August at a powwow of Democratic editors in Indianapolis: "The people of our State will not tolerate . . . any one in public office who will not put his shoulder to the wheel and give his earnest support to the President...
...Father of the Turks, the spectacle of a petty Arab nation, formerly a subject people, ruling over their oldtime Turkish masters was too much. He protested to France and the League. Twice he moved his troops to the border to "protect" his Sanjak children, once he held a military powwow on a border-bound train. Only his cautious prime minister, deaf, stubborn Ismet Inonii, persuaded him from ordering his soldiers to fire...
This means a Navy as big as Britain's. Indeed, the President delayed writing his Rearmament message while he awaited the result of a secret powwow in London between U. S. and British navies. For under the terms of the three-way agreement concluded at the 1936 naval conference, the U. S., France and Britain are to exchange information on their building plans. Presumably, they also exchanged what little information they had about Japan's plans, which are supposed despite denials to include monster 46,000-ton capital ships writh 18-inch guns...
...millennium, while Landon, occasionally jabbing an elbow in the ribs of the Union League boys and with a come-hither grin for agriculture and industry, is content to go inching along to the Republican promised land. . . . Both conventions were similar, indeed all political conventions are like some vast Indian powwow, a ghost dance making mystic political medicine. ... It is the only voodoo we have in this country-tom-toms, brass cymbals, horns, raucous mechanical noises, yawping howling men, screeching hysterical women, savage dancing, waving banners and oratory. . . ." Of President Roosevelt's acceptance speech immediately following the Democratic Convention...
Though Crusader Collier is about as popular with Indians as any white Government official could be, he has had to hold many a powwow to persuade braves & squaws that his plan is good. Justly do Indians point out that every previous Government move to help Indians has all but cost the Indians their scalps. Spirited young Indians who have strayed off the reservation to college resent any suggestion of new Government paternalism, hotly demand the right to become normal, unsegregated U. S. citizens. But Indians on any reservation may take or leave the Act's provisions as the majority...