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...drop heavy bombs. White aviators contented themselves with cutting didos in the air, ripping off belts of machine gun bullets at the sidewalks of Madrid. When the planes had gone and the racket ceased the streets were dotted white with leaflets calling on Madrid to surrender before the real hell of heavy bombing was loosed upon...
Anyway, I am glad you are going back to the weekly program. It was too easy to miss the show when it went on every night. I found myself saying, "What the hell, I'll hear it tomorrow"#151;with the result that I missed most of the programs. By coming on once a week the program becomes more rare, hence more to be valued, and several million of us will make more of a point of tuning...
Thus, in the autumn of 1935, wrote Manhattan Banker James P. Warburg in Hell Bent for Election. Last week, in the most dramatic reversal of the campaign, this early, vehement and brilliant member of the "anybody but Roosevelt" school announced his intention to vote for Franklin Roosevelt's reelection...
...quit in bitter disillusionment after the President torpedoed the London Economic Conference, at which Banker Warburg was U. S. fiscal expert, and with it Warburg's hopes for currency stabilization and revived international trade. Last year Banker Warburg capped his outspoken criticism of his old chief with Hell Bent for Election, which eloquently denounced Franklin Roosevelt as a promise-breaker, an incipient dictator, an "ineffective and dangerous man to have in the White House" because he was dominated by his emotions and his prime emotional drive was "an inordinate desire for popularity." Republicans gobbled up 400,000 copies...
Said he: "What the hell! I better fly solo. I'll take a chance. But having a woman with you ... is too much responsibility. If I get drowned, okay. But if she gets drowned, there'd be trouble...