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...Dutch and French are coming to realize that their allegiance to democracy doesn't relieve hunger and suffering; that gulls and crows, disease and empty stomachs, don't make a good basis for hope and endurance till final victory. American has the power, the right, and the duty to assert her role as helper of the helpless...
...around soupily in the horns through another ten minutes, finally expires in sheer exhaustion. Nobody, I say, could honestly claim this to be great, or even good, music. But hearing a thing like it now and then allows the public to re-evaluate its critical standards, and to re-assert or reject its opinion of specific works. For the good music to be rediscovered and best appreciated, a lot of tripe has to be dragged up with it. Besides, many people can get a pseudo-scholarly pleasure out of recognizing certain features even in a piece of very bad music...
...moment the prospects for progress are not bright. It is possible to argue that Hitler's defeat is essential to the political and military security of the United States-and if that were clearly the case, his conquest, even by actual belligerency, would come first. But to assert, as the President and his Liberals are doing, that War and Social Progress go hand in hand, is either dangerous self-hypnosis or deliberate deception...
...Still walking a picket line in Bayonne, N. J. at week's end were employes of the struck Babcock & Wilcox Co. plant, which has an $18,000,000 backlog of orders for marine boilers and other equipment for the U. S. Navy. Union demands, which union members assert the management refused to discuss, were for an 8? boost in the minimum wage of 57? an hour, a 10? hourly increase for all other workers, bonuses for workers on the night shifts...
...their opponents away from the ballots, in which electioneers used tear gas and brickbats and lead. So controversial was his right to claim the Presidency that the real campaigning did not begin until after the election. For a time it looked as if General Almazán would surely assert his right in the old-fashioned Mexican way, by revolt...