Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...issue was rooted in the man's own obstinate independence. Independence was basic in the Willkie character-a tough, chip-on-the-shoulder independence that ranged from brute stubbornness to a rooted belief in the individual rights of man. Out of it had come the philosophy of his campaign: that the individual is greater than the State; that the purpose of Government is to make men free, since only free men will be able to build a productive and prosperous society. At Elwood he had said: "Only the strong can be free and only the productive can be strong...
...come clear. Partisan Willkiemen saw it as a choice between freedom and collectivism; partisan Rooseveltians saw it as an effort by a Wall Street wolf to don New Deal lamb's wool. The temperate saw it, as Columnist Clapper had clearly stated it, as a struggle between two basic philosophies...
...Willkie speeches fitted into a pattern in which specific legislative and economic proposals alternated with general discussions of Wendell Willkie's basic political views. In Los Angeles he talked of taxation, in San Francisco, of foreign policy, in Portland, of power, in Seattle, labor, in Omaha, the farm problem, in Cleveland, defense, in Pittsburgh, again labor. But between these talks that bore on what he planned to do if elected were reaffirmations of principles-harking back to the pattern of democratic education (Coffeyville), to the position of women in democratic and totalitarian societies (Detroit)-as if he were attempting...
Wendell Willkie was a walking, talking political paradox: he was trying to make a non-partisan campaign. Convinced that he will get the basic 16,500,000 regular Republican votes anyway, he struck again & again into Democratic strongholds, into areas that had never seen a Presidential nominee of any stripe, traveled over rusty railspurs that had never held a passenger train. Correspondents agreed that, as a campaigner, he was a terrific in-&-outer. Groups of a half-dozen he wholly charmed; with 300 he was excellent; with 10,000 he was fair; faced by more than 20,000 people...
...King's personal physician Lord Horder (chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into Shelters) summed up last week some of the basic problems with which the King's Ministers were grappling. "The crux of the problem is overcrowding," said Lord Horder. "The Government has the choice between dispersal and the provision of more shelters. But these two courses are not alternatives: both should be taken...