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There may be further changes in the tax law. But the basic pattern was now set. Adding up income and Victory taxes, citizens could now roughly figure the amount they will have to pay next year...
...Constitution became potent, under three generations of the Howell family, without covering all the news, often without fairness or objectivity. But it did speak, by guess and by God, with ringing feeling for the South. Editor McGill fits the pattern. Like Grady, he loves political slugging matches, especially with Governor Eugene Talmadge. Like Grady's, his signed editorial column is probably the widest read in the Southeast...
...familiar with Europe at first hand. In 332 highly readable pages they reach two extremely important conclusions: 1) "idealism, consistency and strength" have characterized the foreign policy of Roosevelt, Hull and Sumner Welles in the past three years; 2) together with Britain, the U.S. has laid down firmly "a pattern of post-war aspirations and behavior" which should result in a fair and decent peace...
...third dimension, the air, the Iowa and ships like her are vulnerable. A heavy bomb can only dent her deck, but a lucky hit down a funnel into the magazine might do for her. High-altitude precision bombing could be crippling if delivered in a pattern so that the Iowa's speed and maneuverability couldn't save her. More damaging would be close-in, suicidal plane attack-and even with her announced 20-gun, 5-inch secondary battery, sixteen 1.1-inch anti-aircraft guns and unannounced small-caliber armament, the Iowa alone couldn't stave...
Just as Teddy Roosevelt set the pattern of Frank Knox's life, Horatio Alger wrote the pattern of his career. As a boy, Frank got up at 3 a.m. to cover the morning paper route, doubled on an evening paper route after school, earned $2.25 a week. He worked his way through Michigan's little Alma College by waiting tables, spading gardens, painting signs, talking himself into a job as gym instructor. After the Spanish-American War he broke into journalism as a $10-a-week reporter, married his college sweetheart, lived on a family budget that gave...