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...Proudly showed the rough draft of his acceptance speech to Editor William Allen White (Emporia Gazette). Sage Mr. White announced that Wendell Willkie's victory was "in the stars," told a story: "In 1936 I told Alf Landon that he wasn't going to carry Kansas . . . But this year it's different, and Mr. Willkie is going to carry Kansas...
...Government desk in Washington. Last week in its headquarters in the marble Federal Reserve Building, in overflow quarters in three other buildings, NDAC had somewhere between 400 and 500 dollar-a-year men and salaried employes (top, $9,000). No one had had time to count them but the draft on industry was still going on. Within six weeks NDAC will have...
...jail in Los Angeles last week moped lean-jawed 19-year-old Private Conway J. Bristow, sentenced by a court martial to six days for being absent without leave from drills of his National Guard outfit. Two years under the draft age set by the Burke-Wadsworth Conscription Bill, Private Bristow was ready to get back in uniform, wait the Government's call of the Guard to active emergency service. Said AWOLer Bristow of the most common of fense committed by soldiers: "I hope the sentence won't reflect on my patriotism. If I had not been patriotic...
...resolution urging the Inter-American Neutrality Committee, which sits at Rio de Janeiro, to draft a convention to enforce the 300-mile maritime security zone...
...nominated, I want no one to notify me." He asked for a baby to kiss. Said he: "I will accept no modest sums as campaign contributions-the smallest will be $5,000,000." His colleagues hailed him as another Lincoln, pled with onlookers to wire their delegates collect, draft Timmons for Vice President...