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...know that in the process of preparing against danger we shall not abandon the great social improvements that have come to the American people in these later years. We need not swap the gain of better living for the gain of better defense. I propose to retain the one and gain the other. . . . What shall we be defending? The good earth of this land, our homes, our families-and far more. We shall be defending a way of life which has given more freedom to the soul and body of man than has ever been realized in the world before...
...Scotland, Winterset) won a prize for the local artists' colony by a bit of trenchant prose. His composition: "The increasing odor from the pig pen which is wafted constantly to the study in which I write . . . is so rank that unless corrected it will force me to abandon my home." The prize: a civic order limiting the number of pigs to 20 at any one time in any one place in the township. Mr. Anderson objected to a large, newly-built pen which housed 200 pigs for a boys' camp. Now, said he, the camp would need more...
...indefinite." The New York Sun said the $1,000,000 Astor yacht Nourmahal might take them to Nassau. The British liner Britannic took 15 more pieces of Windsor luggage to Manhattan last week, whence they will be shipped to Nassau, but the Duke was said to have had to abandon in France the bulk of his official luggage, trunkfuls of uniforms and cases of stars and orders...
...includes in its cast the ghosts of a handful of immigrants drowned in a shipwreck in 1849. Talking things over with his spooky companions, the hero of Thunder Rock discovers that the pessimism of 1849 was just as profound as that of 1939, resolves with no great originality to abandon his lighthouse and come to grips with life...
...Next to those, the convention's grimmest words were spoken by a vice president of Manhattan's Chase National (biggest U. S.) Bank. Tall, balding Joseph Charles Roven-sky foresaw putting a lot of liberty on the shelf right away. He believed the U. S. would abandon at least temporarily the Hull methods, resort to Hitler's own methods of "barter or compensation trade." The Hull program was "sound in conception under normal conditions," said he, but "it is entirely probable that . . . we . . . shall also adopt trading practices born of expediency...