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Sirs: At the close of Willkie's speech on the MARCH OF TIME I asked my son what he thought of Willkie as President. He said: "I can't picture Willkie riding in an automobile with the top down, and being protected by a gang of Secret Service men." I was suddenly aware of the fact that for this 16-year-old, as for other thousands of his age and younger, the Secret Service guards, the White House, the President and the Star-Spangled Banner had always been associated with only one man, Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...idea was to replace Laval by a gang of former politicians who would [privately] assure the Germans of their complete loyalty . . . appease public opinion . . . [and] provide a smoother transition should there be a successful U.S. landing. . . . Thus Pétain would no longer be regarded as the man who had wrecked the Republic; he would just have kept it in the twilight because of circumstances until he himself was ready of his own free will to restore democratic institutions...
Gnarled hands reached over the side, began to pull up the first of the "gang" nets, each "gang" made up of 24 gill nets 4 ft. wide and 300 ft. long, which may extend for a mile and a half. Motors of the automatic net lifters began to cough. With thousands of lake herring trapped by their gills in the 2½-in. meshes, the nets poured into the boats for two hours a glistening stream of thousands of pounds of fish. Nets cleared, lunch eaten and new nets set, the fishing fleet turned homeward, from Duluth to Munising, Mich...
...parents of offenders, but "in the more exclusive suburbs they are fearful of offending... " Ushers, usually kids themselves, are usually helpless. One Cleveland manager "turned the tide" by exhibiting in his lobby a ravaged seat under the slogan "Vandalism Is Treason." One Philadelphia theater was harassed by a gang of small fry "led by a six-year-old boy who crawled under seats, opened purses in the dark, and pocketed the contents." Police got their child when the six-year-old appeared at the ticket window with a $5 bill and two little girls, aged...
...Their team being good is just a lot of Baleyko so as soon as their one and only determined spnrt Peters out, we'll Fitggerald and his gang good...