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Young was a stern and practical man. He was also a diplomat, a statesman, an empire builder and a begetter of children such as America had seldom seen...
Placid Loafers. In Linden, circa 1895, the pace of life was leisurely. The horse-cars would stop while conductor and passengers got out to give some neighbor a hand. When a fire started, the volunteer fire fighters seldom got to the scene before the building was leveled. Most people worked hard but were not acquisitive enough, says Paul, to kill themselves at it. Even the town loafers, apparently a numerous caste, he remembers with respect for their placid bearing while their wives took in washing to support the family. But they were true to their natures, and so, it seems...
...peacetime the United States seldom exerts the full weight of its influence in world politics. Even after the results of the first World War put it indisputably in the ranks of the great powers, it declined to enter the League of Nations, passed the Neutrality Act, and postponed even mild restraining measures against the late, unlamented Axis until it was bludgeoned into action. In the two years since the United States emerged from World War II as one of the super-powers, its foreign policy has often seemed to operate on a day to day, catch-as-catch-can basis...
...argument over the OIC bill for the spread of U.S. culture and ideals (TIME, April 14). On the floor, Senators spent their time in tedious debate over the Bulwinkle-Reed bill, which would exempt railroads from antitrust regulations. That is, the Senators who were there did. Attendance was seldom above 15; one day, the only audience Alabama's John Sparkman had was Maine's tired old Wallace White...
...dictum was never more valid than in 1947, when, as seldom in history, the world's military strength was divided between two great powers. Could Marshall depend on Eisenhower, his Air Forces and his Army to make it clear that the U.S. is "at all times ready for war?" Three years ago, on Dday, facing the coast of Normandy, Ike Eisenhower commanded the mightiest military force of men, guns, ships, and planes in history, and most of it was U.S. strength. Not even the most extreme of U.S. military now contend that the U.S. should still have such...