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...thought so was Franklin Roosevelt. Next afternoon a White House messenger carried a note to stubborn Harry Hines Woodring, Secretary of War, long engaged in a deadly, morale-destroying feud with Assistant Secretary Louis Johnson, and long rumored to be under pressure to resign. The note requested his resignation...
...Wendell Willkie was the best man to be President of the U. S. No great experience in public affairs marked them: they were made up of lawyers, advertising men, the small fry of big business, the junior partners of little firms. No great idea drove them-theirs was a stubborn, headshaking, vaguely troubled conviction that, no matter if Wendell Willkie had no chance for the Republican nomination-having no delegates, no machine, no manager-they still believed he was the man to be President...
...rumor that he had been a socialist in college) there were other arguments against the whole idea: it was too late to get a campaign organized; the war had made a Third Term virtually certain; no businessman had a chance against the glamor of Franklin Roosevelt. Nevertheless, these stubborn citizens still believed that Wendell Willkie was the best man to be President...
...longer a place for regimes founded on privilege and distinction. . . . We are marching toward a future different from all we know in economic, political and social organization, and we feel that old systems and antiquated formulas have entered a decline. It is not, however, as pessimists and stubborn conservatives pretend, the end of civilization, but the beginning, tumultuous and fecund...
...winter night, after several months of this kind of thing, stubborn Mr. Knott went down to the dog hospital with a doctor friend. The veterinary was busy, and sent Mr. Knott out to a shed to do his work. The dog was violently ill, the shed was cold, the light poor. So Mr. Knott irradiated only a small amount of blood, bundled up the dog, went home...