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...Solid walls of factories blossomed with masses of dirty-faced workers, like tenement flowerpots, who cheered and waved, laughing, sometimes jeering. Children, white, black, yellow, many times screamed derision; but Willkie's evangelical earnestness won their parents' respectful attention. Even in polyglot Homestead, where the police motorcycles bore "Vote Roosevelt" signs, Willkie was heard fairly & fully. For five hours the candidate crisscrossed the river, returned to Pittsburgh for his set speech at Forbes Field on labor...
...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 to link moral, educational and ethical issues with his case for a freely...
Last week Anne Lindbergh made feature-story headlines. At a Manhattan hospital she bore her fourth child (see p. 67). Next day a Manhattan publisher produced her third book, The Wave of the Future (Harcourt, Brace; $1). The book did not weigh nearly so much as the baby, but it was more coherent. In it she said, gently and more gracefully, as a good wife often does, some of the things that her husband had been loudly and awkwardly trying...
Steam Off. Best valve available last week through which to blow off angry popular steam was old Mr. Chamberlain. The London Times bade him good-by by acknowledging that for more than three years he bore "a load of responsibility as heavy and thankless as any that was ever carried by a British Prime Minister. ..." Not so gallant, angry British masses have for months wanted him to take his umbrella, tuck it under his arm, and go back to manufacturing brass bedsteads in Birmingham. For in the British public mind, man and umbrella have come to symbolize...
...time, the seed of history that Leif Ericson had planted bore fruit. Another explorer, also a vehicle of destiny, was courageous in his faith that land lay westward...