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...only truces were political expediencies. In the House, Republicans Fish, Tinkham and Mundt gathered enough strength from their own party and from anti-Roosevelt Democrats to harass and threaten every Presidential move. In the Senate, Wheeler, Bennett Clark, Taft and Nye did the same, with similar hybrid cohorts...
...Help is surely coming-help of sufficient adequacy and power that the invader will be driven from our midst and he will be rendered powerless ever to threaten us again...
Wrote the President: "Developments are occurring in the Pacific area which threaten to deprive . . . all humanity of the beneficial influence of the long peace between our two countries. . . . We have hoped for a termination of the present conflict between Japan and China. We have hoped that a peace of the Pacific could be consummated. . . . I address myself to Your Majesty . . . in the fervent hope that Your Majesty may, as I am doing, give thought in this definite emergency to ways of dispelling the dark clouds...
...high-pressure turbine, with its leap from 30 to 50% energy-conversion, was greeted by powermen last week as one more potent argument against President Roosevelt's long dreamed-of St. Lawrence seaway-power project, which would threaten with a sceptre-like "yardstick" the great privately owned, steam-powered utility systems of the industrial Northeast. Utilitymen regard the new turbine as a symbol, great as the monumental dams of the several power Authorities, that their own spirit of technological pioneering is not moribund, as friends of Government power claim. As a sound dollars-&-cents weapon against Government control...
...first big fashion to threaten U.S. decoration since the advent of surrealism is the bumptious patterns of hearts, birds, stylized flowers and valentine scrolls that constitute Pennsylvania Dutch...