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Youngstown. No Willkie buttons showed along the way, except a furtive few in downtown Pittsburgh; no jeers were heard, save for one plaintive "Boo, Roosevelt"; one group of twelve-year-old boys chanted, "We want Willkie." It was the day for the masses to shout, and they knew it: under the bunting of Mahoning Avenue in Youngstown, swarming in a cheering, yelling horde on Federal Street, breaking through police lines to the car in which the President and Steelmaker Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube, were riding.* Democrats had no success in the steel country when Franklin Roosevelt campaigned...
...well recall during my recent visit to three capital cities in South America the vast throngs which came to express by their cheers their friendship for the United States. I remember especially that above all the cheers I heard one constant cry again and again, one shout above all others: 'Viva la Democracia...
Willkie's voice was vigorous but tired. The audience had gone ready to scream, shout, laugh, cry, cheer, boo, wave their little U. S. flags. But the Candidate wouldn't pull out the stops, hurried on to his next sentence even as applause broke out, slurred his words so that their sense was sometimes lost. Once again the speech, with its simple, strong points read better than it sounded...
...these two declared class war on society in the Communist Manifesto, a sardonic paean to the achievements of capitalism, a slashing indictment of its motives, methods and results, a rousing shout to the proletariat to throw off its chains. Meanwhile Marx organized the First International, fought everybody else who tried to suggest anything, wrecked it when he could no longer control it. Says Wilson: "Marx was incapable of imagining democracy at all. He had been bred in an authoritarian country...
...shout "Hip! Hip! Hooray...