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...America has always tended to be too far removed financially from any but the wealthiest audience. Both the public and the artist suffered accordingly, and both should be glad to hear of an attempt to bring them closer together...
...functioning of democracy, 2) the fundamental mistrust of Hitler's word, fed in North Americans by the feeling of intimacy with the tragedies of Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, etc., given us by our press, our great magazines, our radio, which after all have no true counterpart even in the wealthiest metropolitan centres [in South America], and 3) sentiment or love of any kind for the British Empire...
Next night Willkie entered the Empire City Race Track at Yonkers, N. Y. to make a 20-minute address before 45,000 people from ten States. There, in the heart of one of the wealthiest, most Republican counties in the country (Westchester County, governed by Republicans for more than 30 years, has a $96,000,000 public debt), the candidate made a dramatically successful entrance...
...little more than a century and a half (from 1415 to 1581) little Portugal was one of the most aggressive and wealthiest countries in Europe. Egged on by the tough little kings of the House of Aviz, her explorers (Pedro Alvares Cabral, Tristao da Cunha, Alfonso de Albuquerque, Vasco da Gama, Lourengo de Almeida, et al.) ranged the seas from Greenland to Japan, netted an empire second only to Spain's. Like most nouveau riche nations, 15th-Century Portugal then began to take an interest in art. She carefully coddled a school of Portuguese painters, began a Portuguese Renaissance...
...latter case," Professor Cross states, "the United States, as the wealthiest and most prosperous modern nation, will be faced by problems of national defense of which the solution in the long run will be infinitely more costly than the granting of immediate economic and naval assistance to the Allies...