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...housing; one striving to better labor-employer relations-and so on, covering the whole range of humanitarian causes in which Willkie himself was always a fighting leader. There are few figures in American history who rose to leadership of the people as swiftly as Wendell Willkie did. The most succinct reason given for Willkie's phenomenal career as a public figure, to my mind, was that of Archibald MacLeish: "He trusted the people . . . and they remember...
...Wrote. In the pockets of some of the dead paratroopers were phrase lists in English. The most succinct: "Go to hell, beast." More dramatic was a formal statement to be made on landing, with the name of a U.S. airfield to fill the blank: "I am chief commander on Japanese desant [descent] paratroop army. All the airdrome of [blank] has been taken tonight by the Japanese Army. It is resistless, so you must surrender. Answer yes or no. All the Japanese Army has done great attack...
...supreme moment came in Parliament's gilt-crested Royal Gallery last fortnight, when King addressed members of the Houses of Lords and Commons. He had worked and reworked his speech with the little pencil stub he habitually uses. The address was, for him, an unusually succinct statement of his view that each Dominion must be free to go its own way within a loose Commonwealth framework. But it was no orator's triumph; Mackenzie King's drone had its usual soporific effect on his audience...
...walled headquarters on the South China front, Major General Claire Lee Chennault last week gave a succinct review of Japanese air power...
Presentation of the plan's skeleton in pamphlet form marked Step No. 3 in Ely Culbertson's systematic campaign. First he submitted the plan to several scores of notables in all walks of life, got almost unanimous approval, at least of principle. Second, he published a succinct outline in last February's Reader's Digest. Step No. 4 will be the appearance in June of a weighty volume called Total Peace, which will present the plan in fullest detail...