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This novel tells what was behind the show in a southern state like Louisiana with a governor like Huey Long. It is a tough, triumphant novel...
...their first triumphant postwar conclave, the Witnesses cast off wartime tribulations. In Germany, their disdain for human authority had tumbled 6,000 of them into concentration camps. In the U.S., their religious scruples against saluting the flag had vexed mobs to tar & feather them and burn their homes. Over 4,000 had gone to jail for refusing either to serve in the armed forces or to be classified as conscientious objectors; Witnesses claimed they were all ministers of the gospel. But the Witnesses had thrived and multiplied a bit on a diet of rough treatment...
...days before Franco's rebellion flared, hotly debated the question: in any Spanish village, should a majority favoring nudism be empowered to strip a minority that clung to their shirts and skirts? An appeal to the rights of individuals to choose for themselves was overruled. The triumphant argument: no community could long endure half clothed, half naked...
Michigan's inquisitorial Republican Senator Homer Ferguson pressed a triumphant question: had the Congressman reported the contribution to the House? He had not. The law, Coffee added blandly, called for reporting of contributions received 10 days before and 30 days after an election. The $2,500 had been an "interim contribution...
Labor's leaders, fearing that they had been overconfident, were less triumphant. Said Herbert Morrison: "[The party] must keep busy all the time ... or we are lost...