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...Wrote Columnist Raymond Clapper: "I saw President Roosevelt at his regular press conference this week, and the weight of his burden is plainly written on his face. I have never seen him more drawn, and his color was that fatigue gray which comes from long hours of close work and strain. Mr. Roosevelt is dealing with a vast amount of secret information, and his decisions necessarily often are based upon facts which cannot be publicly known. . . . But here is a question of broad policy, which is tangled up with the issue of whether we fight or not. ... It seems...
...dinner to the commanding general, then put a box of chocolates into the general's bed. Inside the box was a note: "Dear Sir: This is to inform you that this is a bomb which would have exploded when you touched it with your foot. Yours respectfully, Fifth Columnist...
...Sherwood, for his wartime Broadway success There Shall Be No Night; Marcus Lee Hansen (posthumously), late professor of American history at the University of Illinois, for his historical study The Atlantic Migration; New York Daily News Editorial Writer Reuben Maury "for distinguished editorial writing during the year"; Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler for his columns on scandals in U.S. organized labor; Chicago Times Cartoonist Jacob Burck for his cartoon "If I Should Die Before I Wake," depicting a child praying in a bomb-shattered room; 53-year-old former College Professor Leonard Bacon, for his book of verse Sunderland Capture...
Even of those who remain convinced that going to war would be fatal tot he cause of American democracy, almost a majority have given up hope for success in the fight for peace. This form of defeatism led one Boston columnist tacitly to admit yesterday that he could be convinced of the merits of fighting if only the Administration would hire some better showmen than bumbling Mr. Willkie and dull Mr. Stimson. Another "Over There" in his opinion would give the needed touch of crusading spirit to the cause macabre...
...Columnist Ray Clapper, of Scripps-Howard, thought the Administration's attitude was sound, the Treasury tax proposals "severe." Said he: "Thank God for that. If this Government hasn't the guts to stand for heavy taxation in this crisis it hasn't the guts to do anything. The same goes for the American people. . . . There is no such thing as defending ourselves short of taxes...