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TIME neglects to mention Rule 11 among necessary qualifications for nomination as Republican candidate for the Presidency. To wit: he must sit upon the fence on every vital question and express himself only in the vaguest generalities. With the exception of Mr. Willkie, no Republican candidate during the past 20 years has violated this rule...
This is perhaps the vaguest inquiry you ever received, but I hope you will be able to give me some information on the matter. Four or five years ago--it may have been five, but it is more likely four--there appeared in either the New York Sunday News or the New York Sunday Mirror an account of a bizarre party, carnival, or ball held by an organization calling itself the Harvard Literary Society or the Harvard Dramatic Society. It seems to me--though again I am not sure--that it was a ladies' society and that...
...four weeks after the Kaiser's Army swept into Belgium and World War 1 began, the U. S. still had only the vaguest idea how the war was going. When German troops crossed the River Somme, 70 miles from Paris, an official press release placed them on Belgium's River Sambre, 80 miles farther away. Wythe Williams, Paris correspondent for the New York Times (now a commentator for Mutual Broadcasting System in Manhattan) slipped a dispatch past the censor hinting that they were nearer, but his editors at home missed the point. Not until the Battle...
Militant democratic sympathy brands immediately as heresy and concessions to the ogre Hitler. Accordingly it rejects as insulting the vaguest mention of a peace concluded over the body of prostrate Poland. And-together with the isolationists-it emphatically demands that President Roosevelt spurn the role of peace mediator...
Johnny Roosevelt is the gayest, vaguest, gentlest, most winning of the Presidential sons. Anne is no great beauty but full of spirit, a good sailor, swimmer and dancer. When Johnny first presented her to his father, he said: "This is Miss Schmaltz." "Oh!" exclaimed the President, "I thought it was Zilch." The late F. Haven Clark, Anne's father, was a Boston banker. He had a place on Campobello Island, N. B. straight across the road from the Roosevelts'. But Anne became engaged to another boy, John interested in another girl. Not till last year did they take...