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...Wilson" is narratively almost as historically correct as the movies could make it. Everything is there: the brass bands booming down the aisles in a "Win with Wilson" rally; the tremendous voice of William Jennings Bryan at the 1916 Democratic convention to a background of "Onward Christian Soldiers"; the swelling enthusiasm of the American people for the first world...
...opinion that the secret could not be kept, argued that the bomb be made available to the United Nations Organization. Said Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps: "The thing I fear is that as the months and years pass the story of Nagasaki and Hiroshima will fade into the background and that . . . this new power of destruction . . . will cease to have its compelling force upon our political actions...
...could see that Harry Truman's way with the press was different from Franklin Roosevelt's. Was it better? Most Washington reporters by now were used to the Truman style of brief, factual announcements. Most of them liked it, even if the news gushed forth without much background information, and never anything like the parables Franklin Roosevelt delighted to tell. A few newsmen, mostly the kind who do "think pieces" and need something to prime the pump, yearned for the artful skirmishes, the nods and becks and significant smiles, of the 45-minute-long Roosevelt conferences...
...Traxler lists hundreds of elaborate tests designed to find out all about a schoolboy by "measuring" his background, attitude, aptitude, achievement and personality. Some of them: the Tweezer Dexterity Test and the Wiggly Block Test, to measure manual skill; the Cardall-Gilbert Test of Clerical Competence; the Meier-Seashore Art Judgment Test, the California Test of Mental Maturity, and the Orleans Geometry Prognosis Test (to predict the ability of pupils who never studied the subject...
...contract was both flowery and nebulous. It said that the company was "sympathetic to the enlightened and wise guidance of His Imperial Majesty . . . and his Government toward the destiny, which by history and background, Ethiopia so well deserves." In return for the concession, Sinclair promised to devote part of its Ethiopian profits-if any-to build schools, hospitals, clinics, sanitary facilities "and other public institutions for the enhancement, education, health, culture and prosperity of the people...