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With his new riches, Oilman Davis was able to play turnabout for his friend...
...most sudden and spectacular editorial turnabout of the year, Captain Patterson ran these words: "Might it not be intelligent for this Government to warm up to Japan? . . . The United States may be able to help China more effectively by being polite to Japan than by persistently hurling threats. . . . We may drive Japan into the German-Italian camp. That would make Japan more dangerous to us than it now is. If Hitler should win the war, and especially if he should grab the British Navy as one of the spoils of such a victory, we might easily find ourselves menaced with...
...pointed out that while Manhattan's railroad freight tonnage had dropped 50% to 4,000,000 tons a year since 1919, trucking to & from the city had zoomed to the point where trucks were hauling two tons of freight to the railroads' one. So serious was this turnabout that the Authority warned motor carriers that they had better build big motortruck terminals in order to cut operating costs and reduce traffic congestion...
...Turnabout. Oliver St. John Gogarty is an Irish physician, Senator, wit, poet and the original of Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses. His autobiographical volumes, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street and Tumbling in the Hay, tell of his indiscreet youth, his love of laughter and low company, his delight in stories of his own and other people's misbehavior. One such got him into a libel suit which cost him ?900. But when Patrick Kavanagh, young Irish poet, published The Green Fool (TIME, Feb. 27), fun-loving Dr. Gogarty could not see the joke...
...Roosevelt would have none of Hearst, so Hearst turned to snarl at the "Raw Deal" and even boosted his old enemy, Al Smith, for President. Hearst staked his "reputation as a prophet" on Landon's election in 1936. When Roosevelt was reelected he tried to do a turnabout, but nobody cared any more...