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...opinion, all the other issues are transitory and trivial, and all the dispute about technique is irrelevant. . . . After all, the fellow still packs a wallop. And a philosophy of government is more important than a program...
...theme-song" type of broadcast (Fear, Hope, Hatred, etc.), which he employs upon occasion, packs an awful wallop. We deeply regret that atmospheric conditions will soon be such that many nights we shall have to retire without obtaining his clear, complete, nonpartisan, well interpreted picture of the day's news. Fifteen minutes with Paul Sullivan at the microphone seems to pass as quickly as a scared cat through a doorway...
...spare the time from such other headaches as Ethiopia and Nazis, something should be done to help China by maintaining "the open door." China has received the heaviest solar-plexus wallop to her economy not from Japan but from the Pittman "Silver Bloc" in Congress, whose success in jacking up President Roosevelt to jack up the price of silver forced China's currency off the silver standard and dislocated the affairs of 400,000,000 Chinese. Last week's keynote caused the Japanese Foreign Office's tart spokesman Mr. Eiji Amau to snort: "Senator Pittman...
...short time ago where somebody said that business was going to get a breathing spell? What is the meaning of that? . . . When the aggressor is punching the head off the other fellow, he suddenly takes compassion on him and gives him a breathing spell before he delivers the knockout wallop...
...advertising bureau head, William A. Thomson, decided to take a critical look at Radio's offhand claim of "millions of listeners." The fruits of that investigation appeared last week as Yardsticks on the Air, a pamphlet published by ANPA, which struck the year's hardest wallop at Radio as an advertising medium...