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...speech began to swell; the crowd began to roar. At each challenge it rose-the challenge to manufactured class hatred, the challenge of poverty, the challenge to increase productivity ("Only the strong can be free and only the productive can be strong"), the challenge of greater hardships ("In these months ahead of us every man who works in this country-whether he works with his hands or with his mind-will have to work a little harder. ... You will have to be hard of muscle, clear of head, brave of heart...
...that day had begun. The Duke & Duchess of Windsor walked slowly down the gangplank of the Canadian liner Lady Somers to meet a welcoming roar from thousands of Bahamians jampacked around the pier. From the casuarina trees around Rawston Square, barefooted natives shouted down greetings as the new Governor General and his lady moved up the street to the Legislative Council Chambers...
...brickmaker's boy from Grassy Point, N. Y.: now that he was assured that the Democratic Convention had been democratic, now that the delegates' will had been registered, he moved that the rules be suspended and Mr. Roosevelt nominated "by acclamation." The great hall shook with the roar for big Jim. "Chip" ("Chippie" to some of his acquaintances) Robert ostentatiously threw his arms around Farley, waving to the photographers to get the picture. To the tune of When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, the convention adjourned...
Alben Barkley's dull roar died away. In its stead, for a long moment during the Democratic Convention last week, there was only the manifold murmur of the crowd in the Chicago Stadium. The sweating, shuffling, staring thousands had just heard Franklin Roosevelt's inconclusive message that he could be had (see p. 9), wondered what would happen next. Suddenly the loudspeakers clustered above the delegates came alive. A voice thundered...
...roar of the big guns is muffled at first, gradually grows louder in Sometown. A $5 bill will feed a Belgian baby for a month. It is not Sometown's fight. But in a rathskeller, the song Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier doesn't sound right either. Mr. Averill didn't raise his boy to be a soldier, but when Walter joins the Lafayette Escadrille, somehow Mr. Averill and Sometown are proud of him. Even the Bensinger girl, whose father teaches at the local college and wants his native Germany...