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Full Dinner Pail. It had been, in the past. It was founded as a crusading party, champions of free farmers and free labor against slaveholders and slavery. Until 1908, labor had been traditionally Republican. The A.F.L.'s Samuel Gompers was a frequent visitor to the White House when McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt occupied it. The McKinley program of prosperity and "the full dinner pail" appealed to farmers and workers as well as employers...
Socialist Britain had its topsy-turvy aspect as well, and from there last week came a story of a London visitor who was inordinately impressed with the satiny polish given his shoes by a hotel boot boy. Next morning he arose especially early to catch the "boots" and congratulate him. "How did you ever learn to do it?" he asked. The boots drew himself to attention. "As a matter of fact," he replied in the clipped accents of an ex-Guards officer, "my batman taught...
...Yugoslavia the Marshall Plan and the Tito rule were being bracketed with a broad grin. A visiting diplomat asked a Yugoslav to tell him-in strictest confidence-how the nation felt about Marshal Tito. "One. hundred percent in favor," came the answer. The visitor's eyebrows shot up. "Oh, yes," explained the Yugoslav. "Just add it up: 95% for Marshall, five for Tito...
...Every milkman in the southern part of the U.S. probably saw it this morning." Federer said last night. "It's a very bright comet," He added that the astronomers do not yet know which way the solar visitor is travelling, but that they would look for it again, at about 4:30 a.m. this morning...
...likes to tell about a Bible study group in Germany that had begun with Genesis and doggedly plowed clear through to Ezekiel. Asked an impressed visitor: "Don't you find Ezekiel terribly difficult?" Replied one Bible student: "Yes-but what we don't understand, we explain to each other...