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...huge Rhinebeck estate where he spent an occasional weekend, he wrote: "If I had one tenth what those people have, I'd be a great man ten years quicker." He still felt anguish at being in his mother's debt; he hoped to repay her and assert his superiority by the little boy's revenge of becoming famous. "I shall be great -if I do not die too soon - and you will be known as my mother." During a 1924 trip through Europe he pleaded: "Please, if you are able, stand by me a little longer...
Introducing the issue in a first page editorial, the editors write "We emphatically assert that the College needs its magazines at this point more than ever before, and it needs above all a political magazine....We feel we have an important task to do--that is to help mobilize the student body of the University in the fight against the Fascist powers aboard and their allies behind our lines...
...TIME, March 22, on page 78 you write: "The English . . . want less blowing of their own trumpets by Americans. . . ." On page 79 you assert: "Once American technology was a storehouse of learning that Europe hired . . . but through the years of war and prewar depression the rest of the world changed in its view of what it wanted from the U.S. ... It wanted the essential secret of U.S. enterprise, the quality within it that brought forth on the continent a new nation, a new birth of liberty, and with them a new wealth beyond the richest visions of the old. Thus...
...confess that I dream of the day when an English statesman shall arise with a heart too large for England, having courage, in the face of his countrymen, to assert of some suggestive policy-'This is good for your trade; this is necessary for your domination; but it will vex a people hard by; it will hurt a people farther off; it will profit nothing to the general humanity; therefore, away with it!-it is not for you or for me.' When a British minister dares to speak so, and when a British public applauds him speaking, then...
...78th Congress, after the exciting days of its birth and its blessing by Franklin Roosevelt, got to work on Capitol Hill. Its future now looked a little clearer. This was a Congress full of vim & vinegar, eager to get on with the war, busting to assert its independence, and judging by the temper of many members, eager to throw its weight in constructive rather than destructive fashion. Of party politics there would be plenty, but each side had a shrewd notion that the successful way to make political hay was to beat the other in getting on with an effective...