Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made oldtime G. O. P. bosses successful, says Charley Michelson, was "ignoring the mutterings of the Liberal group of Republicans." The same principle, he thinks, will work in the future. Only chance for a Republican comeback is to stop straddling the liberal-conservative fence, return to the "rock-ribbed citadel of oldtime, fundamental conservatism." That is why Alf Landon and John Hamilton, both tainted with Western progressivism, should be tossed overboard. The Republican National Chairman should be an emotional as well as physical resident of Manhattan, should "sit at the feet of the magnates, political and financial, and saturate...
...ordinary heeler wants in return for his services is a small official job and accompanying "perquisites." If his party stays out of power too long, he will grow discouraged, seek other livelihood. That is what has been happening to the Republican machine since 1932. But the heeler may be equally bereft if his party wins too often and too easily. For then the party generals and captains and lieutenants come to believe that they themselves achieved the victories, forget the rear-rank privates who did the actual fighting...
...Duke's return to Britain in the not too distant future, and a chance to "make himself useful" to the Empire...
...Guernica was sharp in every mind. Should General Franco be advised to repeat that mass bombing of a civil population there would be no way of stopping him. Reconnoitering on the Basque Front, 18 Rightist planes became lost in fog, came down perforce in southern France. Allowing them to return, French authorities recorded officially for the first time how preponderant in Spanish skies are U. S. makes of planes-twelve of the strayed ships were Boeing fighters...
Radio. Like the newsreel cameras, 28 radio microphones were strung by British Broadcasting Corp. along the seven miles from the Palace to the Abbey and return. Into a central control room at Broadcasting House, through 472 miles of wire and twelve tons of equipment, poured a Babel of sounds-trumpets, cheers, tramping, coughs, prayers, commentaries-to be sifted and unified, put on the world's ether waves. In the Abbey alone were 30 microphones-one of them, supersensitive, was hung high in the vaulted roof over the chancel-to catch every syllable of the historic service. Radio officials later...