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...Dorothy Thompson: "She is a victim of galloping nascence. Most of her newspaper training was received abroad when she was an active if not particularly profound foreign correspondent. Returning to her native land, she is suddenly filled with the same fervor of discovery as 'Stout Cortez' or Columbus. . . . If all the speeches she has made in the past twelve months were laid end to end they would constitute a bridge of platitudes sufficient to reach from the Herald Tribune's editorial rooms to the cold caverns of the moon. Dorothy Thompson is greater than Eliza because...
...Only twelve days previous in sonorous phrases unmistakably intended for the ears of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the leonine Mr. Lewis told the nation: "It ill behooves one who has supped at Labor's table and who has been sheltered in Labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both Labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace." Since during the steel strike the President had called down a "plague o' both your houses" it looked as if John L. Lewis and Franklin D. Roosevelt had finally broken...
...Some officers, and unfortunately some of them were chaplains, have spoiled otherwise spotless records by saying or doing tactless things. ... It goes without saying that a chaplain should be possessed of personal integrity and exemplary habits, and should be a man of religious experience with pious instincts and a fervor for service. . . . ' Training Manual, U. S. Army, prepared under the direction of the Chief of Chaplains...
...Liberals" like the Premier see more wisdom in taking any number of delicate bites at the Chinese cherry. If now Generalissimo Chiang, should really hurl China's whole force against Japan, with Russian cheers behind him, the bedseat-driving Premier would be genuinely dismayed. He hopes with "Liberal" fervor that he may enable the Son-of-Heaven to rise over North China without undue bloodshed and not upsettingly soon...
...Indians went on the warpath again. They were receiving more guns from British traders than they had from the French, whose military defeats amounted to no more than the defeat of a business competitor. Philadelphia arms merchants now solved the difficulty of selling their wares by stirring the patriotic fervor of church congregations to the point where they put up the cash for guns to arm the settlers. Smith raised a white war party of his own, outfitted them with breechclouts, knives, tomahawks; prescribed blackened faces, red-topped skulls, plenty of red war paint. Drill consisted in teaching...