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Democracies have always built as they fought. Is the modern pattern to adjust the last pleat before inviting the neighbors into the new house...
...light vote, but one that had an almost uniform pattern of expression, Republicans, by winning 44 seats, came within an inch of controlling the House (222 to 209, with four minor-party representatives) ; grabbed off nine seats in the Senate; and moved governors into the big and potent States of New York, California and Michigan. Although the Democrats still controlled Congress, States which will now be governed by Republicans have a population of 76 million and an easy majority in the electoral college. Down to defeat went such stalwart New Dealers as Oklahoma's Josh Lee and New Jersey...
...power that it is specifically denied, and of one that it possesses in too hazy a manner to be effective. Firstly, miscellaneous public speeches by Representatives and Senators, when they deal with matters of war information such as this one did, should be correlated into the general pattern of information that is being presented to the public. And secondly, Price's office should be effectively and whole heartedly backed by the Administration at the same time based on a policy of open sincerity, unhampered by what Elmer Davis has called the "ingrained natural reticence of the services...
Slight, smiling Mrs. General Carpenter is one of the Army's writers, directs much of its relief work in England. Throughout their lives the Carpenters have lived within the Army's rigid pattern, which forbids smoking, use of alcohol, going to the theater. The General has not read a novel for 20 years. A typical Salvationist couple, the Carpenters have two children, both in the Salvation Army...
This career sets the pattern for Japan's transformation into a world power. In Tokyo the Fureno dynasty holds power by bribes and terrorism. In China the Furenos profitably combine opium traffic and espionage. Throughout Asia their agents inflame resentment against the white man. As a great banking house, the Furenos finance the importation of Western technology into Japan's army and industry...