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...themselves. As onetime mayor of Boston he helped himself to $30,000 of city graft. Nevertheless he became governor of Massachusetts, then U.S. Congressman. Up or down, whether riding the crest of popularity or selling the family silver to meet his debts, Jim Curley has been at the public trough for 44 of his 70 years. Last week he hoped once again to better himself. At the very time when he had been re-elected to Congress, and a few scant hours after Boston's handsome young Mayor Maurice J. Tobin had been elected governor, Jim Curley announced that...
...Washington Administration has waged so ruthless a war on private enterprise that the United States . . . is actually at the present moment leading the world back into the trough of depression. . . . Those who are keeping the flag of peace and free government flying in the old world have almost the right to ask that their comrades in the new world should . . . set an example of strength and stability...
...some ways, mostly personal, Somoza is a more attractive character than his visible opponents. Some of them fed at his trough until recently. Now that they have left him, they find his excesses hard to stomach. Old Jose Moncada, lately in retirement, is credited with saying: "While I was President, they called me a thief. Alongside this man I am an angel...
...services show little inclination to play down their military and naval accomplishments. ... If overconfidence is not caused by such disclosures, it will not come from telling the facts about war production. . . . The only result of a false pessimism about our state of war production will be to create a trough of inactivity in which our economy will lose momentum...
Wingate's axioms: shake a civilized white man out of the narrow trough in which he lives and he can beat the Japanese in jungles. Human beings can store up energy as a camel stores up water. Trained men can keep going for weeks with little food and drink...