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...year 19 of the 20 Latin-American republics spent an average of 25% of all Government expenditures on defense. Latin America maintains a peacetime strength of about 350,000 men. War strength is calculated at 1,800,000. With a total population of 125,000,000, Latin America can muster a potential man power of 12,000,000. Fifteen of the 20 countries have air forces. The aggregate Latin-American navy consists of five battleships, six cruisers, 32 destroyers, 20 submarines, a scattering of gunboats, minelayers, river-patrol boats and coastguard cutters. But only Argentina, Brazil and Chile can patrol...
This is not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedication. Here muster, not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity. Men's hearts wait upon us; men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try? I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-looking men, to my side. God helping me, I will not fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain...
...down the land echoing or outdoing him. William Harrison Fetridge, managing editor of The Republican, thought the welkin was ringing too loudly, wrote: "The time has come to talk plainly to a lot of Republicans. . . . Quiet, thoughtful, reasonable talk will win more votes than all the bombast you can muster." New York's Congressman Bruce Barton, candidate for the U. S. Senate, nailed a thesis on Mr. Roosevelt's front door charging the President with most of the political crimes in the calendar. Suggesting that Roosevelt planned a Hitlerized U. S., he accused the President of secretly planning...
...politics, or because Wendell Willkie had missed with some haymaker rights & lefts. (Nobody denied he was good at infighting.) Now he knew better what it meant to "meet the champ." For daily Franklin Roosevelt threw a bigger punch in the form of action as President, than Wendell Willkie could muster in the form of argument as Candidate...
Even more dramatic was the tale of twelve-year-old Elizabeth Mary Cummings: "When I got to the lifeboat muster station the boat was gone. It smashed as it struck the water with some men, women and children in it and I could see the people struggling in the water. . . . We got into another lifeboat, but there was a terrible crowd aboard. The sea was very stormy and waves were coming over our lifeboat, and I was certain that I would die. . . . Suddenly one big wave, and the lifeboat tumbled over. I never swam in my life...