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...object of its prey, the N. P. M. A. is slowly but surely undermining the foundation of a great industry. . . . Our vigilance has been too keen to render us a martyr to the cause ... if the rights are taken from the people, then we can expect no lesser fate than India with its strife and turmoil...
Unable to give her speech because of the constant interruption of cheers and snatches of song Carrie finally gave up in disgust, abandoning the Harvard boys to their horrible fate...
Most of the civilized world last week bated its breath on the eve of President-elect Roosevelt's White House conference with President Hoover on War Debts. All Europe had the idea that its economic fate was in the four hands-two of them long and sinewy, the other two white and heavy -at the White House table. Most U. S. citizens previewed the meeting as necessary and important but not epochal. Day after his return from California President Hoover picked up his desk telephone to find Governor Roosevelt talking from his Albany study. Their opening exchanges were easy...
...striking analogy between the Nemesis-like defeat of Herbert Clark Hoover and the hubris of the Republican Party during the past decade. The G. O. P. had defied the political gods by declaring it alone was "fit to rule." It had taken credit for all the good things fate bestowed upon the land. It had promised to put the entire nation comfortably on Mount Olympus. Wrote Elmer Davis in The New Republic...
...Democracies are accustomed to punish their gods for their misfortunes," said the Conservative & undemocratic London Morning Post. "The retiring President . . . will be followed by another good American . . . who has received a preliminary warning by the fate of his predecessor...