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...This trip has impressed one thing on my mind ... I need to do more reading, more writing and more thinking if I ever want to fulfill my dream of being someone in this world. Maybe I seem foolish to have such vain hopes and plans, but, Bucky, I can see how some day, if you and I just apply ourselves and make up our minds to work for bigger things, how we can some day live here in Washington, and probably be in Government politics or service. I set my aim at Congress. Don't laugh at me. Maybe...
...Nanking, meanwhile, amid vain attempts at secrecy, Foreign Minister Wu Te-chen conferred separately with the U.S., British, French and Soviet ambassadors. His purpose was not made clear, but it was obvious that China was asking for international mediation of the-civil...
Roman cops, their topees set at a jaunty angle, intercepted all traffic offenders and on the spot collected sizable fines. To increase their civic zeal, the policemen were allowed to keep half of the fines. In vain the press cried out against this "unheard-of form of taxation...
...thoughtfully again Lincoln's Gettysburg Address." Whatever thoughts Abraham Lincoln's had on the subject of War Memorials cannot dedicate...consecrate...hallow this ground...It is for us, the living rather, to be dedicated...to the great task remaining before us...that these dead shall not have died in vain...
...contention that the forces of New Dealism were gathering ominously to prevent him from being re-elected--thereby undermining the whole system of parliamentary government. When the CIO Political Action Committee was formed in early 1944, he sought in vain to connect it with the Administration. The PAC was not only legal, but it made things so hot for Dies down in Texas that he decided not to try for another term. Glumly muttering imprecations, he "retired," and his fellow-southerner, John Rankin, took over...