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While the right claims victory on one hand, the Willkie wing, supported by recent Gallup polls, purports to hold the actual leadership of the party. In one corner the Spangler-Taft-Bricker coalition prepares to wrest the coming nomination, while the Willkie-Stassen group marshals its strength for the 1944 test. As a result, the present Congress lacks the critical eye of a unified minority, and the Old Guard continues to approach their old level of influence...
...able enough as the Boss of The Bronx, that wilderness of apartment houses which is the greatest single Democratic stronghold north of the Mason & Dixon line, he is no James Aloysius Farley on a national scale, and has never pretended to be. If the President is going to wrest a Democratic victory this fall, he must do it mainly alone...
This was a job for Paul Bunyan; to wrest an all-weather road from the jealous Northland between early spring and autumn; to span the fierce, death-cold rushing rivers, the black custard quagmires; to cut switchbacks across the Great Divide, to make the way between the Arctic and the U.S. for a highway which some day may be as common as the Boston Post Road...
Planning to wrest all the horror possible out of green light effects, an inter-mission-dimmed house, deceptive draperies, and revised dialogue, the Harvard Dramatic Club will present its own version of "Dracula," a stage adaptation of Dram Stoker's famous novel, on August 20, 21, 22 in Sanders Theatre...
...Allies must wrest air control away from the Japanese...