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Johnson writes: "In the whole Roosevelt record there is not a single great musician, painter, sculptor, or other artist, and not a single madman. No Roosevelt ever died as a martyr to some great cause, and none was ever shot in a quarrel over a trollop. Up to the eighth generation there is no conspicuous instance in which a Roosevelt ever refused to do his duty, and none in which one ever did much more than his duty. For 250 years the family record was remarkably clear of both scandal and glory." Suddenly out of the line appeared...
...President should use his personal prestige and the power of his office to head off general anti-strike legislation, steer the present quarrel back to N.D.M.B., and get Lewis to suspend his walk...
...sure, if Russia and Japan fought, the Chinese would still reap immediate advantages. There would be a relaxation of pressure all along the front. Japan might withdraw enough troops to forfeit many secondary outposts to the Chinese. Chinese Communists no doubt would be slower to quarrel with the Central Government, more active against Japan...
Harvard's Tin Pan Alley was born during the bitter A.S.C.A.P.B.M.I. tiff, with the impudent idea that its minstrels were going to give the two other organization plenty of competitions and make the quarrel a triangular affair...
There was a growing rumor that Bawler Bevin's Cabinet days were numbered, that Sir Walter Citrine would succeed him. The luxury of the quarrel between them seemed to many to have been justified as issue-clearing. Spreading rapidly throughout Britain was the conviction that, to keep Russia in the war, Britain must go all-out with the finest equipment to Russia, even at the expense of whittling down her home defense and pinching the army with which she hopes some day to invade the continent...