Word: clapper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prevailing mood in Washington was gloom. Apprehensively the country read the Washington columnists, whose reports of U. S. defense preparations read last week like the opening chapters of so many ghost stories. "We are in a pause," gloomed Columnist Ray Clapper (Scripps-Howard). "Slump," wailed Columnist Dorothy Thompson (New York Herald Tribune), who printed reports that the President is in a "down" mood. Even Franklin Roosevelt's closest adherents questioned his two-week cruise; wondered how he dared leave. Washington seemed to be sinking back into the swamp whence it was reclaimed...
Last week Mr. Clapper made up his mind what the fight was about, pecked his findings into his dilapidated typewriter: "The sharp difference between Willkie and the New Deal centres on the place of capitalism in our national life. Roughly, Willkie believes private capitalism can carry the ball alone. New Dealers believe private capitalism alone is inadequate and that public spending must supplement it. The more extreme New Dealers go even further and question whether private capitalism is not a waning influence destined not to disappear perhaps but to play a far less controlling part in our national life...
...only Ray Clapper but the U. S. had gradually learned what sort of a strange, uncompromising, unpolitical rugged character the G. O. P. had nominated...
...issue had come clear. Partisan Willkiemen saw it as a choice between freedom and collectivism; partisan Rooseveltians saw it as an effort by a Wall Street wolf to don New Deal lamb's wool. The temperate saw it, as Columnist Clapper had clearly stated it, as a struggle between two basic philosophies...
Whether or not Willkie's listeners, like Clapper, began to see what he was driving at, he kept on driving. For the home stretch he mapped a killing itinerary. Before the campaign's end he would cross and crisscross the vital regions, smashing more & more boldly into Democratic citadels, ending with a bombardment of New York City...