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...first hand and younger men who had looked on from the outside. Hitherto the elders had kept silent while the youthful crusaders monopolized front pages with a revision of U. S. history which made those elders out to have been deplorable bunglers, duped by propaganda or impelled by greed. But when ardent young Senator Nye called the Wartime President of the U. S. a liar, the pent-up wrath of Woodrow Wilson's onetime associates burst forth in dancing fury...
...role: "Through a well-ordered neutrality to do naught to encourage the contest, through adequate defense to save ourselves from embroilment and attack, and through example and all legitimate encouragement and assistance to persuade other nations to return to the ways of peace and goodwill.'" Entrenched Greed, Making an abrupt transition from world affairs to domestic matters, the President fell violently upon his political enemies at home. Almost in a twinkling the whole trend and temper of his speech changed from a State document to a campaign address. Declared the President: "Within
...sure, in so doing, we have invited battle. [More applause] We have earned the hatred of entrenched greed [Cheers and applause]. . . . "In March 1933, I spoke of the practices of the unscrupulous money changers who stood indicted in the court of public opinion. ... I said that they had admitted their failure and had abdicated. . "Abdicated? Yes, in 1933, but now with the passing of danger they forget their damaging admissions and withdraw their abdication. [So excited were Democratic Congressmen that they cheered here, too, by mistake. Taken aback, the President lost his place, started to skip a sentence] "They offer...
...blessed motherhood," called the kidnapping of "our beloved 'Eaglet' " the "greatest and most disastrous case of all times, excepting the Crucifixion of the devine Son of Man," and reached its climax in: "Yes, but the ashes of the darling baby, victim of a fiend urged by greed of gain, and seeking pleasure, are mute witnesses of the Crime, while within every American's breast there is a beating of the heart, tolling the death-knell of every gangster, while the Stars and Stripes fly from every staff and masthead...
Ominous darkness comes on; darkness bred of the mob's hatred, misunderstanding, greed, vanity, fear and jealousy as much as of the gathering clouds, ill winds and troubled water. The earth shakes and with it murders' philosophies. Soldiers flee! Women scream, Crucifixion's cry is soon silenced and only one voice is heard; "Forgive them for they know not what they...