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...Meanest slap of all was a neat turn of phrase of the kind in which Franklin Roosevelt delights: "It is not a tax bill, but a tax relief bill providing relief not for the needy but for the greedy...
Ninety Colorado legislators proudly traveled back to the four corners of the Centennial State last week. They were solemnly proud of not having done something-they had stubbornly refused to vote what they had been called into special session to pass. Their do-nothing was the loudest kind of slap in the face of Colorado's Governor John Charles Vivian...
...Christian Beacon found the matter indicative of "a most deplorable and desperate condition" in the Navy. The Beacon's editor, the Rev. Carl Mc-Intire, took the occasion to wind up with a slap at Chief of Naval Chaplains Robert D. Workman, "who is a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and who . . . has set out to produce a chaplaincy corps in the Navy which is streamlined according to his own ideas. . . . This information is brought with the one desire of helping to correct the condition, and that we shall have a man at the head...
Backed up by Jonas Ingram, his ships and his planes, the Uruguayan Govern ment announced its refusal to recognize the Villarroel regime. This action was a stinging slap for Argentina's Colonels. The Bolivian regime of Gualberto Villarroel, recognized only by Argentina, was firmly in the hemispheric doghouse; the U.S. was trying to line up its Latin friends in a united front to resist any further aggressions by Argentina. Then, when the stage was set, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull prepared to loose a long-advertised blast against the Argentine and Bolivian regimes...
This gratuitous slap disturbed many Americans and Britons. Yet Mr. Willkie need not have taken the slap too much to heart-it was completely in tune with Soviet Russia's recent reactions to any & all suggestions that Eastern Europe and Russian affairs in that area are subject to world discussion. On its face, this fact seemed to hoot at the Moscow and Teheran declarations that Russia, the U.S. and Britain share a common interest in Europe, along with the rest of the world...