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...just gone to work at 9 a.m. when the Willkie motor caravan passed through, with the bareheaded candidate waving from an open car, cameramen standing smoking in a truck, a score of shiny 1941 model cars stuffed with aides, newsmen and political small fry. Near the railroad tracks, a half-dozen blocks from the town centre, Willkie got his first real baptism by booing: a three-story red-brick General Motors assembly plant sprouted workers at every window, and up went the boos, loud, clear, mocking in the fresh Indian summer...
...regular Republican votes anyway, he struck again & again into Democratic strongholds, into areas that had never seen a Presidential nominee of any stripe, traveled over rusty railspurs that had never held a passenger train. Correspondents agreed that, as a campaigner, he was a terrific in-&-outer. Groups of a half-dozen he wholly charmed; with 300 he was excellent; with 10,000 he was fair; faced by more than 20,000 people he was unsatisfying. Observers wondered: How would he do before...
...Given adequate stock piles of tin, high-grade mica, radio quartz, industrial diamonds, and a half-dozen deficient ferroalloying minerals and certain tropical plant materials, we could be virtually independent of overseas imports for years at a time," Mr. Tyler said...
...careful, responsible judgment. The charges are not new. But the total indictment is terrible. Guilty Men is headed by a cast sheet of villains. Among them: Ramsay MacDonald, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Neville Chamberlain, Sir John Simon, Sir Samuel Hoare, Lord Halifax, Sir Thomas Inskip, Mr. Leslie Burgin, a half-dozen others...
...last term's end, the Rugg books had been banned from some half-dozen school systems...