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Facts of Life. He anticipated objections. "You may tell me. that some of the signatories to this charter practice the precise opposite of what they preach even as they sign. ... I reply that the nearer right you may be ... the greater is the need for the new pattern which promises at least to stem these evil tides...
...Congress. His political career followed the typical small-town pattern: commonwealth (district) attorney, election to Congress (1922). In 1928, when he supported Al Smith, he went under in the Hoover landslide. But two years later he was back. He worked hard, carried the tax ball for the Ways & Means Committee, became known and famed as a fiscal expert. In 1937, after the Supreme Court had thrown out the Guffey Coal Act, Vinson studied the decision, wrote a new bill, made it stand...
...sprawling, creeping Chinese front is inching forward in the wake of the Japanese retreat much as a boy tiptoes through a haunted house, testing each plank as he treads. Behind this front, held by old tatterdemalion outfits, new armies and new weapons are being tooled to the future strategic pattern of the war in Asia. They are not yet in action and will not be for some time to come. In these months of grace it is the old army that is retracing the course of its great retreat last year, advancing in the same way it fled-tired, hungry...
While the ruling showed a lively diversity of opinion, the Court's session-now closed-found the Justices gradually settling into a pattern. It was not as sharply defined as in the days of the Nine Old Men. It looked something like this: Justices Black, Douglas, Murphy and Rutledge on the left wing; Justices Roberts, Jackson, Stone, and the onetime red-hot New Dealer Frankfurter on the right. Frequently the deciding man was Justice Reed...
...Russian news reports suggested that another development of immense importance to Czechoslovakia was up for discussion in Moscow: the Communist. Social Democratic and People's Socialist parties had formed a Czech "National Bloc" on the familiar "National Front" pattern of other countries in Russia's sphere. Czech labor unions, professional workers and technicians, farmers, and intellectuals were to be united in centrally controlled organizations allied with the "National Bloc." If liberation was bringing freedom to the Czechs, it was of a kind unknown to them before the old freedom collapsed...