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...Mussolini is reaching out with his mailed fist to drag us back into a more primitive age when conquest was respectable and did not offend the moral and legal code of international society as it does today...
...Birmingham, when Mrs. Ernestine Meeks refused probation for a liquor law violation and began to serve a 60-day jail term, her husband, sometime subpoena server, crowed: "There has been a lot of talk about us having a drag. I want people to know we serve our time in jail like other respectable people...
Yale turned up with a new gadget yesterday at the Junior Varsity game in the form of a portable shower. Managers would drag the machine onto the field during time outs, pump furiously, and refresh weary players with gentle rain...
Whatever may be said about the New Deal, the efforts of President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull to increase the trade of the United States and to drag the country out from behind the fences she has raised, promise to be to the permanent credit of the administration. Mr. Hoover's quip about the "more abundant life" is an indication of the shallow thought behind his attack. The man who coined the phrase, "Prosperity is just around the corner," should look before he leaps on another man's catchword...
...story leaked out of what had taken place in the President's office ten days earlier. Nine Representatives had marched in and resolutely told him that the discretion he desired, to declare an arms embargo against either of two warring nations was, in effect, the power to drag the U. S. into war, a power no prudent President would want and no rash President should have. Angered by such unaccustomed opposition, Franklin Roosevelt snapped that he could if he would put the U.S. into war in ten days. Thumping his desk, he thundered that he would not let Congress...