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Since Moses. Although Britons are notoriously creatures of habit who love to eat the food to which they are accustomed, however dull it may be, Lord Woolton was not destined to attain the unpopularity of Leon Henderson or Jimmy Byrnes. He had not lived at University Settlement, Liverpool, without learning how to appeal to the ordinary Englishman. He taught them to do without things they had eaten all their lives-and not mind...
Nevertheless, while this confusion leaves you with a garbled ideas of what you have seen, it is the very element which gives the picture whatever dramatic value it possesses. Steady continuity of over-tenseness cannot help but often attain startling emotional peaks...
...economic adventures. For good or ill, 1944 is likely to leave a permanent impression on the course of American affairs because it was the year in which each of four short documents (the longest of them only 48 printed pages) attempted to trace an outline* of means to attain permanent full employment. All four of the proposals, two from the U.S., two from Britain, acknowledged implicitly or explicitly a revolution in economic thinking that has been in progress since the depression: the belief that the state-and only the state-can create conditions in which productivity and the standard...
...Patriotic, Avoid Friction." To some, the final insult to Negro pride is the appearance of the European refugee, who is free to vote, eat where he wishes, and attain full citizenship, while the native-born Negro, often of old U.S. stock, must remain a semi outcast...
...after his Presidential defeat because I feared the ridicule of those who believed him to be a political clown. At least I had the redeeming grace to read, enjoy and tell others about his One World. When a majority of Americans reach Willkie's patriotic stature, America will finally attain true greatness...