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At Pontiac, Mich., young men in dirty overalls began to show Wendell Willkie the strength of Franklin Roosevelt's political muscles. They came out of automotive and machine-tool plants to boo and Bronx-cheer. Pontiac-typically Midwest, a small town with a one-street business district-had just...
Women and overalled children fringed the parade route, skittering along the sidewalks behind the posted American Legionnaires, who wore their monkey-caps and their one hour's importance solemnly. From the sidewalks came an occasional "hurray!" From the factories, from the men of Pontiac, came boos, hisses.
How did we get there? . . .*Don't be misled by Boss Flynn. . . . If we go down this road, democracy will disappear. . . . Please, please, listen to me. . . . Don't let them lead you like cattle to the shambles. . . . Boos don't hurt me. ... All I ask is a...
Over the Manchester and Point Bridges -where the Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio Rivers join-the parade whisked on for a 53-mile, 12-stop trek up the Monongahela, on the way to Steel. Past burning blast furnaces, past stacks belching columns of black, profitable smoke, along the river with its flat...
Cheers and boos rocked the House, above them Churchill's voice barking: "I'll take the liberty of sending the honorable gentleman a copy of one of his interventions. . . ."