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...know there are many loyal and intelligent citizens of the United States who think such a pledge both unnecessary and unwise. They think we can prosper as a nation even if Hitler and his allies dominate the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia--provided that we in turn dominate this hemisphere. Such people argue that a stalemate in the Battle of Great Britain with a compromise peace would be the best possible outcome of the present war. I wish I could agree. But those who hold such views, it seems to me, neglect entirely the time required for an effective...
...fully armed and prepared to fight if need be, we must become a responsible power in the world, that we must in collaboration with the others who hold roughly our same ideals, organize a large portion of the civilized world in such a way that we may continue to prosper as a national unity and develop the potentialities of our nation...
...show is the Thomas program. He plays the lead, but he doesn't write the words. They are concocted by Scripteurs Prosper Buranelli & Louis Sherwin, who have become so closely identified with Thomas that it is impossible to de termine whether he talks as they write or they write as he talks. They are careful to stress simple Americana, with accent on adventure and tear-jerking anecdotes. Says small, plump, volatile Buranelli: "I'd leave out the most important piece of foreign news for a dogfight in Denver." Neither Buranelli, who used to be a puzzle editor...
...owners did not prosper so well. A few months ago Donovan was discussing Chicago's blighted laundry business with shrewd, hulking President James Shaw of the Laundry Owners Association. Donovan suggested an advertising cam paign, said his union was ready to put up $10,000, that he thought the laundry truck drivers' union would do the same. Laundryman Shaw was sold, but it took him three months to get the other owners to agree. Finally they put up $32,000. Last week the campaign, scheduled for mid-September in local newspapers, was in the hands of an advertising...
...cheap candy which he, like the rest of his troupe, peddles between acts. Captain Billy worked up his Carmen when the Zoo opera announced its production. His working up consisted of throwing away nearly all of Bizet's melodious, phony-Spanish music, nearly all of Prosper Merimee's phony-Spanish story...