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...froth-mouthed isolationist, before Dec. 7 Hearst published yapping anti-British editorials which sometimes outdid the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News. Afterward, for a time, the anti-British editorials disappeared. But not for long. Presently Hearst's 4,110,270 daily readers were informed that Churchill remains in power "notwithstanding his incompetence because he has succeeded in dragging the United States into England's European entanglements. . . ." The British were denounced for enslaving India. But, as if taking it all back, the Hearst-papers ran a cartoon depicting Churchill's speech as the tourniquet...
...signing this contract, Ford not only reversed its labor policy but outdid both General Motors and Chrysler, neither of which has granted union shops. Said Edsel Ford: "No half measures will be effective. ... So we have decided to go the whole way." One thing was certain: the most important member of the "we" was 77-year-old Henry Ford. There were many conflicting theories about what had moved...
Hampered by the early date at which most of its opponents were able to take to the diamond, Stahl's ball club outdid itself by holding Georgetown one of the best teams in the East, to a 7-4 count...
...supporting the Lend-Lease Bill. Then, so successfully did he plug isolation that in no time he was ranked among the top half-dozen chief U. S. "appeasers." Not even the Hearst chain, Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune or Joseph Medill Patterson's New York News outdid Roy Howard's isolationist tour de force: a screaming "exposé" purporting to show that the Army had already ordered 4,500,000 identification tags for America's war corpses to come...
Salvadoran critics outdid the critics of New Orleans in politeness. Said Critic Salvador Salazar Arrue: "The exposition is of great transcendence to Salvadoran art. . . . The social importance these cultural manifestations exercise on life will be clearly seen...