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...none had won a third election to the Presidency. Knowing U. S. history as a boy knows batting averages, Franklin Roosevelt knew that he had left the shelter of precedent, had pushed off on a course without chart or landmark. Through the vapor that is the future he could steer only by the North Star of his own purpose...
...winner at last week's opener was plucky little Paul Guyton, in for 20 years for shooting a big fellow who picked on him in a saloon. Guyton, whose 125 pounds had never been astride anything but a motorcycle until last year, won $25 for riding a Brahma steer the length of the arena. In five appearances, Bull-rider Guyton has never been thrown...
...moved without a wrench from the Republican to the Democratic Party. And it was he who broke the political truce when World War II began, by coming out for the Third Term ("the President's talents and training are necessary to steer this country, domestically and in its foreign relationships, to safe harbors"). At that time, despite his long belief in internationalism, his hatred of fascism, he believed the U. S. should give up thought of open aid to Britain and France. Later he read Thorstein Veblen's The Nature of Peace and Imperial Germany, and changed...
...auction off a prizewinning black Angus steer, Michigan's State Fair counted on doddery, dirt-farming Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson. At the last moment superstitious Governor Dickinson, who is up for election this fall, begged off. Reason : the last four Governors to auction off prizewinners were subsequently defeated...
Among the impatient mourners were not only businessmen, 23 of whom (and 15 corporations) were indicted for Sherman Act violations last week. There were also farmers, labor leaders, even New Dealers -especially those inner circlers who are trying to help (or steer) the Defense Advisory Commission in rearming the U. S. A maverick New Dealer, Thurman Arnold necessarily regards the Defense Commission as his natural enemy. It stands for more cooperation among businessmen than he trusts, reminds him unpleasantly of NRA; besides, it may do him out of a job. This week, as Washington's defense parade threatened...