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Like a much-enduring man who can no longer hold his peace, Alfred Landon spoke his mind last week. In a broadcast speech from Kansas City, the Republicans' 1936 Presidential candidate boiled some angry conclusions about a situation which he thinks "is growing worse each hour." He spoke like any angry man, but he spoke the fears of many another brooding U.S. citizen...
...weather cleared. With an almost ostentatious disregard of the news he spent the Sunday morning with members of the Chapel Corners Grange, although the mission from Moscow had been on hand a full day. Averell Harriman, keeping to the tempo of the time, flew from Moscow to London, broadcast a breathless speech of confidence in Russia, flew to the U.S. in a U.S. Navy patrol bomber, raced to his home in Harriman, N.Y., 35 miles from Hyde Park. Harry Hopkins ran back and forth. But the President let more than 48 hours pass before he settled down to hear Harriman...
...resisted, gone are the tirades of Stalin against the Christian creed. In suppose Russians are being told that the people of the United States love communism because communists had a chance to talk over here. And now comes the best one of all. The other day in a shortwave broadcast from London, Lord Beaver-brook informed the world, that everybody was wrong about Stalin--that the old boy is one of the best dressed men he ever saw and, to top it all off, has a marvelous sense of humor. The propaganda given the American public in the last...
LONDON -- Approximately 35,000 Germans fell in the battle of Taganrog and 500 German planes were destroyed on the ground in one week, a Russian war communique broadcast from Moscow claimed today, coincident with the first signs that the German drive on Moscow was breaking down...
Alexander Woollcott's broadcast offered an illuminating glimpse of the oldtime Hotel Algonquin intellect at grips with the new world war. Puffed up with self-deprecation, mellow Mr. Woollcott could not deflate himself as a hero without triumphing once more as a raconteur. He told how he had "pricked up these old ears" in a London police station at the accent of the boy ahead of him, found he was 21-year-old Steve Traski from Jersey City, who had shipped three times out of Halifax, been torpedoed twice before he finally got to London to enlist with...