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...Ninety-eight percent of the people out of work and on relief want jobs. They don't want relief. The relief people should take the same attitude the Communists...
American fairness and justice demand that Hanfstaengl be welcomed to this country as a friend of America. He is fifty percent American by ancestry and his family has done more for the unification and subsequent greatness of the U. S. A. than the Untermeyers and Dicksteins have done, who in their clannish and destroying attitude have lost every sense of reasoning and fair play...
...tableau was not marred by the first results of a Literary Digest poll asking 15,000,000 1932 voters: "Do you approve on the whole the acts and policies of Roosevelt's first year?" Sixty-six percent of the 45,000 balloters (from New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania) said Yes, whereas only 57% of the total Digest's straw voters had favored Roosevelt in the 1932 poll. Forty-one percent of the Digest balloters who had chosen Hoover two years ago now favored the President's policies...
...Herbert Lawrence. Japan has been a highly profitable customer; the firm of Mitsul, allied to both Schneider-Creusot and Vickers-Armstrongs, served its country splendidly when Manchuria was flaming brightest. It also served China excellently. In 1930 China, the world's largest importer of arms, bought almost 40 percent of its war material from Japan. The European armament makers who were supplying this trade found the free port of Hamburg convenient; during one famous week in 1932 there cleared from Hamburg two ships loaded with dynamite, grenades, and airplane parts; another with 1,000 cases of explosives, another with...
Every day, opening our mail with palsied fingers and still-hopeful heart, we pull out something beginning like this; "Fifty-seven per cent of Yale men ten years out of college would fight in another war and forty-three percent would not, it was revealed today in the results of an 'opinion test'. A majority of Yale ten-year men disapprove of Albert. H. Wiggin and Samuel Insult; but approve of J. P. Morgan." Then you read on and it turns out that the Yale men are going to hold a dinner (war or no war). That is all right...