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...their own profession: granted an interview to the press. Like visiting diplomats (Sheean this week starts a ten-week lecture tour, Knickerbocker next week starts a four-month tour), they sat behind Mr. Leigh's massive desk and answered questions, while a dozen reporters leaned against the walnut-paneled walls...
Later that day, Philadelphia turned out to line the streets. The Rooseveltian teeth gleamed in a smile for all. Down Broad Street rolled the motorcade, carrying such big shots as bald-headed William Bullitt, resplendent Anthony Biddle, rugged Boss Jack Kelly. In narrow Walnut Street the parade passed under a gigantic banner which announced: "Willkie-The Hope Of Our Country...
...September, 1639, Eaton was put on trial for beating his assistant with a "endgel, which was a walnut tree plant, big enough to have killed a horse, and a yard in length," and was dismissed from his post...
Renegade Democrat. If Candidate Willkie had any inkling of all this, last week, he showed small concern. The only gloom in Rushville, Ind. was a deep, cool shade beneath black walnut and apple trees, out in back of t ie 80-year-old worn brick house on Harrison Street which he had rented as a temporary residence. Wearing carpet slippers, Willkie lolled under the trees, supremely confident of victory...
Foreign enterprises have been discriminated against. By currency manipulation the Japanese increased their share of the important egg export market from 5% last year to 80% this, of walnut meat, another important item, from 2% to 60%. By intimidation they have gained practically the entire bulk of another important export commodity-bristles...