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Excerpts from Mr. Willkie's talks in and around Chicago include the following choice morsels: "The hell with Chicago."-"I want to find out if you really are too damn dumb to understand. Is anyone here so damn dumb that he thinks we can go on another four years, anyone so damn dumb that he cannot realize that burden?"-"I can do as much work as any damn...
...swing of ever more bands-400 of them. There were Indians, Zouaves, a four-year-old and a 60-year-old drum majorette; a blind veteran with a Seeing Eye dog; Rudy Vallee, "Bojangles" Robinson, a sign reading "America-Love It or Leave It"; a Brooklyn contingent bawling "To hell with the guys who brought their wives! We have no wives with us!'' The American Legion was on parade...
With a shattering roar an explosion forward of the engine room threw the vessel violently on its beams, next minute a second torpedo crashed into the engine room. In an instant the whole ship was a hell of fire and water. Through the gaping holes in her sides, water poured into the ship, trapping scores of passengers, some of them wounded by the blast. In the darkness and storm it was almost impossible to launch lifeboats. She was listing farther every minute...
...they knew that scattered about in its dismal rooms was a varied assortment of once eminent French leaders. They might be scapegoats, they might face dishonor they did not warrant, but to the little people of France it looked at last as if someone was going to catch hell for the social, political and military debacle that culminated in what was grandiosely called the Battle of France...
Along the southern borders of Kwangsi and Yunnan Provinces 200,000 of the best troops China possesses fingered their rifles last week, awaiting a showdown in the game of pressure diplomacy across the frontier. In the last two months Japan's hell-for-leather Army mission had twice pushed negotiations with French Indo-China to a stalemate, had threateningly packed its bags, then backed down. But each time the Japanese came back with even stiffer demands. Last week they pushed hard for the most drastic terms...