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...slave, Miles was born in Powhatan, Va. the year Abraham Lincoln signed "the paper"-the Emancipation Proclamation. He went north in 1881. Theodore Roosevelt used to stride into the Club, crying: "Miles, you old rascal-you still here?" Said Miles last week: "I've always been a Republican. I'll always be a Republican. I'd vote for anyone who was a Republican...
...Labor Day, Mr. Roosevelt really got in stride. Giving up his year-long attempt to compete with Winston Church ill in the manufacture of richly phrased, purple-worded dramatic addresses, he switched style, went back to his own earlier simplicity, clarity. Result was one of his best speeches this year, a powerful, moving, direct and candid effort. Ostensibly speaking to U.S. workmen on Labor Day, he told all the people...
...merciless Japanese. The Chinese call it the Middle Kingdom Space Machine Family; to foreigners it is known as China National Aviation Corp., operated by far-flung Pan American Airways in partnership with the Chinese Government. CNAC, a collection of seasoned pilots and even more seasoned planes, takes in its stride adventures which would not be believed if seen in the movies. Last week CNAC told a tale which topped its bravura career...
Radio manufacturing has recently looked like the first U.S. consumer industry to take the guns-v.-butter dilemma in its stride. Although it faced a 75% cut in its normal business and already felt the metals shortage, Bond P. Geddes, executive vice president of the Radio Manufacturers Association, last fortnight said the industry had "no squawks." But last week he was squawking as hard as the rest...
Frankly regretful to leave Fort Knox, which shared his disappointment, General Surles was characteristically modest-about his plans for tackling the big headaches ahead: "I'm going to look up some of my old friends when I get there to get back into stride. I'll let the newspaper boys do the writing. I'll furnish the facts. That's my idea of the job. There is definitely no idea of censorship...