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What John L. Lewis didn't reckon with, was the force of public opinion. This time might be different...
...TIME pays a rightful tribute to the mighty leader of a mighty people. . . . Never was seen a more inspiring example of a people infused with the power of an idea. The power of this idea is the one thing that the master mind of the master race did not reckon with; and it is the one thing that can lick...
...when it did, calculated to stun and sicken the people by outraging the season that stands for a symbol of peace, to wreak the maximum psychological havoc by undoing a time so beloved and gracious, unleashed emotions with which both the friends and enemies of democracy will have to reckon in the future. There was a telephone call to a Minneapolis radio station: "Why those sons of bitches!" There was a Kansas hunter: "I guess our hunting will be confined to those God damned slant-eyed bastards from now on." In Phoenix: "How many of the yellow...
...longed-for Navy men had taken over the Union, throwing 964 girls into the Square for meals. Cambridge restaurants had to reckon with the Houses, however, and careful management by the girls could usually arrange healthy weekend meals. (Leverett's open most weekdays...
Observed one ancient, Talmadge-hating cracker: "I reckon Ole Gene done more for education than any man ever to be Governor -he done showed us how bad we need...