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...late Columnist Ernie Pyle reported the kind of thing that is said about Nebraska's The Sower. "That blankety-blank-," said an oldtimer, "it's supposed to be a man sowing grain. But just look at it. He's barefooted. He's got the wrong foot forward for a sower, and in his hand where he should have grain, it looks like he's got a cannonball. Nobody in Nebraska ever looked like that." But of all capitol finials, none has had a sadder career than Hartford's Genius of Connecticut. When...
...must be revealed, the prophet not without honor save in his own country, "to him that has shall be given," leaving one's father and mother to follow Jesus, and some of the Beatitudes, e.g., the poor having the kingdom of heaven. Many parables are also included: the sower, the thief in the night, the tares, the mustard seed, the marriage feast, the wicked tenants, the pearl, the hidden treasure...
...Germans: "We give to Germany what she desires, and we renounce our own dead." Pleven got to his feet and solemnly replied: "Our dead did not die in order that all should begin as before." When the plan was approved, Rene Pleven said proudly: "France remains the great sower of ideas...
...Worst or the Best? What people thought of Dean Gooderham Acheson ranged from the proposition that he was a fellow traveler, or a wool-brained sower of "weeds of jackassery," or an abysmally uncomprehending man, or an appeaser, or a warmonger who was taking the U.S. into a world war, to the warm if not so audible defense that he was a great Secretary of State, a brilliant executor of the best of all possible foreign programs. A lot of the charges that the State Department had housed party-liners and homosexuals had obviously stuck. But Acheson had the confidence...
Stassen spoke derisively of Harry Truman's "scolding, threatening, complaining speeches." The President, he said, had "dishonored labor with an extreme demagogic appeal." He called him a sower of "the seeds of disunity for the sake of fleeting political advantage...