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...pattern was repeated last week. Not even National Chairman Harrison Spangler had counted on bagging the Kentucky Governorship. This border-state triumph was the key to the whole trend: it demonstrated that Negroes are deserting the New Deal in droves, that public resentment against the "ins" is stronger in the privacy of the voting booth than in polls, editorials or street-corner talk. In New York, no one in his right mind had conceded colorless Joe Hanley more than a 100,000 majority for Lieutenant Governor; Republican Joe Hanley trotted home with a 350,000 margin...
...economic pattern of German conquest has been clear and consistent. First came a vast physical looting, in which trains were requisitioned to carry to Germany movable property: machinery, raw materials, food stocks, books, scientific instruments, horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, art objects and collections, furniture, park benches, clothing, soap, hardware, garden tools, bed linen, doorknobs. The trains themselves seldom returned...
...spoke precise English, edited the rich and influential Tokyo Asahi, wrote pamphlets. Like many another of Japan's soured intellectuals, he applied his knowledge and talents to the advocacy of aggression. In 1936 he formed the Tohokai (Society of the East), a fascist party on a modified European pattern...
...project, military men see more than a thoughtful scheme for fitting Air Forces men and jobs smoothly together. They see what may be a preview of demobilization. If the Redistribution Center can ease men into new military jobs they are glad to get, it may set the pattern for the right return of millions to civilian life...
Precision and Punch. Reconnaissance photos later showed a well-pocked target, testified anew to the effectiveness of this combination of U.S. precision bombing with the heavy destructive punch of mass-formation pattern bombing...