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...more than at any time since he had been in the White House, Roosevelt could afford to tell the country the truth, however unpalatable. There was no one he had to please for political reasons, no one to soothe or baby or sweeten up. He came into office this time committed to no man, indebted to no group, bound by no strings. He was committed only to the national good and particularly to national defense, and to what the national defense implied...
Great Britain and France last week lent Turkey $174,000,000 (on top of $100,000,000 already lent by Great Britain). This loan for which no economic basis exists was to sweeten the defensive alliance which Nazi Ambassador Franz von Papen failed to prevent last autumn, and $100,000,000 of it is to be spent exclusively on Turkey's Army. That Army does not by the terms of the Allied treaty with Turkey have to attack Russia, but it stands ready to defend its country against Russian invasion...
...lead. Yugoslavia now furnishes Germany with copper (from British-French-owned mines), Turkey might furnish chromium. The Allies will buy these countries' exports of these metals, also taking Yugoslavia's entire export prune crop, Turkey's entire surplus of figs, grapes and some tobacco, to sweeten the deals...
Purpose of the society is to .encourage or sweeten the 20,000,000 U. S. citizens who are grouchy, timid or asocial because their ears are dull. For 50,000 hopeless U. S. deaf-mutes, the society can do nothing but cheer for bigger & better special training schools. Through newspaper campaigns and radio programs, the society, which claims such hard-of-hearing, hard-working members as Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Owen D. Young, has 1) pushed the passage of laws in eleven States demanding hearing tests for all school children;* 2) campaigned for routine lipreading classes in all public schools...
...chosen to sweeten NLRB is a merry, contemplative cherub of 56. Now grey, paunchy and averse to all forms of physical effort, he worked his way through the University of Wisconsin by cooking flapjacks for the One-Minute Coffee Shop in Madison. Between cakes & coffee he absorbed the principles of economics and labor from Wisconsin's famed Professor John R. Commons. Later he taught economics at Antioch College, where his students called him "Uncle Billy." He has been a careerist in mediation and arbitration-for NRA, for the petroleum industry, finally (in 1934) for the railroads as chairman...