Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...begged) their vote for this man Willkie. In this urgent, crusading atmosphere the delegates were increasingly uncomfortable. They could no longer read the newspapers with any enjoyment for all the important political columnists were daily comparing the nomination of anyone but Willkie to the Fall of France-Ray Clapper, Mark Sullivan, Arthur Krock, Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann, Westbrook Pegler, Hugh Johnson. Even the coldest, toughest of all, nail-hard Frank Kent told them flatly in his old-shrew style that, while Herbert Hoover was the best man, Wendell Willkie was the only winning candidate...
...politicians, an end to popular suspicion of businessmen as such, a recognition of the need for industrial leadership in a crisis. Deepest was the realization that the Republican convention would meet in the hour of Hitler's greatest triumph and democracy's greatest defeat. Wrote Columnist Ray Clapper: "Democracy has been a failure in Europe. It has been blind, slow, inefficient, unable to understand its interests and to protect them. . . . The idea of popular sovereignty is down flat on its back. The tribal king is on the throne again. . . . Republicans have just one issue in this campaign...
...form varied-there was determination to aid the Allies, determination to speed U. S. defense, determination to destroy whoever got in the way. There were casualties: >Dead was the politicos' alibi that "the country" could not grasp the issues of world conflict. Wrote steady-minded Columnist Ray Clapper from Kansas City...
Commented Columnist Raymond Clapper two days later: "That is a long sentence. But it would become a historic one should we get into this war, for it is the most aggressive call that has echoed from any official source since the last war ended. . . . He stopped just short of calling for a declaration of war against Germany...
...overoptimistic, Sherwood is militant. His pacifist who, after studying the issues at stake, decides to fight can easily be taken as a symbol: Sherwood might well wish an anti-war U. S. to change its mind as Valkonen did. Although denying Columnist Raymond Clapper's accusation that his play is a plea for intervention, Sherwood admitted that he expected to be called a "warmonger...