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...President's, time & again he had marched up Capitol Hill carrying water on both shoulders to fight the President's battles. Time & again, trying to keep peace between President and Senate, he had carried individual Senators' complaints to the White House, seen the President nod and make notes, found later that the matter had ended then & there. But he had gone on gladly, because Party loyalty was ingrained in his soul, and because he believed sincerely in Franklin Roosevelt as a great leader...
...report is such as to encourage Congress in opposing the usual Administration practice of asking blank-check powers and appropriations for vaguely denned agencies. The economic destiny of the U.S. is envisioned as being not in the hands of the President (who released the report with a perfunctory nod), but in a Triple Entente: President, Congress, People...
...could look at Negroes with an "entirely fresh mind." Perhaps not since de Tocqueville and Bryce has the U.S. had such an analytical probing by a sharp-eyed foreigner. Sifting a mountain of documentation through a trained academic mind, Dr. Myrdal drew conclusions that will make U.S. citizens either nod or squirm...
...gives him the nod, John L. Lewis will have won, through shrewd strategy and sheer mulishness, a resounding victory. If WLB turns him down, John Lewis will be able to point virtuously to his three heaving attempts at a settlement. And his big, meaty finger is still aimed ominously at a deadline: Oct. 31. After Oct. 31, if there is no approved miner-operator contract under which John Lewis' miners can work, the U.S. can do without coal...
Proves in One Touch of Venus that de Mille can nod as well as Homah...