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From A.F. of L. came bleats of innocence, blats of criticism. Big & little labor shots, newsmen, columnists joined in the clamor. The racket shook the windows of the White House...
This is the paradox which has nurtured the hate racket. But it is based on the assumption that the only way to make American democracy worth fighting for is to blacken the way of life of every nation which threatens democracy. This assumption is false. The American people do not have to be doped with the adrenaline of hate journalism. All they need is the facts: the facts about the strength of their own forces, about the actual danger which is facing them. If the newspapers and magazines of the country would spend less effort on giving them unnecessary excuses...
...retired four years ago, Powell took over-against the protest of oldsters who had been shocked by his marriage to a radio and nightclub singer, considered him a little too fancy and convivial for a preacher. His sermons dealt with everyday Harlem problems like high rents, jobs, the numbers racket. Afterward he stood in front of his pulpit, kissing the women of his congregation...
...Burma Road, ever since its opening in September 1938, has been the greatest racket in China. It has been, and still remains, both a national scandal and a national disgrace...
...sheer racket the shipyards of 1918 were rivaled only by the Western Front, for into every 10,000-ton freighter were battered over a half-million rivets. In many modern ships nearly all these rivets have been eliminated. Result is that shipyards today are much quieter, and to gapers outside their guarded walls the chief evidence of activity within is the firefly flashing of arc welders clambering among the hulls...