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From Manhattan's Democratic National Campaign Headquarters, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. junketed to Philadelphia to set up a First Voters' League. Winding up a list of alleged benefits from the New Deal in a speech to young Philadelphians, Franklin asked and answered a rhetorical question: "Who did it...
>Disturbed by undergraduate pacifism. Yaleman Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, accused the writers of his own generation (Ernest Hemingway, Walter Millis, John Dos Passos, Richard Aldington, et al.) of disarming the U. S. Said he (at a convention of the American Association for Adult Education in Manhattan): "The moral and...
Sheer sacrifice was what the German Navy's performance really boiled down to. Winston Churchill was not merely rhetorical when, after only three days of fighting, he called the Nazi Navy already "deeply mutilated" in respect to cruisers, "a mere counter to be cast away for a particular operation...
Place and circumstance might have been used as a symbol by a more rhetorical man than former football guard Mayor Lamberton. For while the city jingled, beneath the mayor's feet was Philadelphia's deep, dark financial hole.
A tabloid Julius Caesar is a hit; so is a marathon Hamlet. A romantic play-Romeo and Juliet-starring Katharine Cornell, does well enough; a largely rhetorical one-King Richard II-starring a then not well-known Maurice Evans, does far better. Hamlet, with John Gielgud, then no name on...