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...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...
...Arts and Sciences, the leaflet will probably list two groups of courses. The first group will provide practical military or scientific information which would be useful to a member of the armed services. The second group will deal with such subjects as the nature of fascism and the basic causes of the conflict...
...standards of required background work. However, if men who plan to compete for the technical board have not had any previous technical training, they may be expected to have courses in Physics or radio included in their schedule of future studies. In any case, a certain amount of basic technical radio instruction will be included in the competition along with an explanation of the hook up to be used in the Harvard system...