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Meantime the Dewey strategy will be simpler and quieter. At Chicago, his managers made no pretense that he is really unavailable, all previous Dewey statements notwithstanding. But Tom Dewey has learned many a political trick from Franklin Roosevelt, and he proposes to continue giving Republicans and all U.S. voters the same kind of treatment they are receiving from the White House...
...bombed and burning LST by erecting a bridge of pontoons to another ship. On another day they rescued a fleet of landing craft which was being pounded to pieces in the surf. Bulldozer operators steered their caterpillar machines into the waves and pushed the boats out into deeper, quieter water...
Personal Touch. The commander who drilled the Fifth is no martinet. He drove himself, as well as his troops, hard. But in a relaxed sort of way. He does not stomp or rage-or even smoke to ease his nerves. The tauter Mark Clark feels, the quieter he usually becomes. But what he says then in his resonant voice may have a steely edge, and his long legs may take longer, caged-lion strides. He does not have General Patton's histrionic flair, or General Eisenhower's command of expletives. Yet he can let off steam with...
...House of Commons last week to foot a ball President Roosevelt had booted his way nine months before. Britain, he said, had decided to convert her colonial empire into a cooperative empire-but it will be an empire still. Oliver Stanley's words were a quieter echo of Churchill's growl last Armistice Day: "I did not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Changes in the Empire, it was clear, would have to be gradual...
After 1906 the Mayflower settled down to a quieter routine as Presidential yacht: Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Harding, Coolidge reviewed the fleet from her decks. Presidents Taft and Wilson entertained bigwigs on board. In 1929 President Hoover decided she was too costly; she was decommissioned and unsuccessfully offered for sale six separate times. In 1931 she caught fire and sank at her berth in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Then the Mayflower was put up for scrap, sold to a Chicago bidder for a dismal $16,105. The Chicago firm resold her to a Wilmington, N. C. company, which in turn resold...