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...victory, there must nevertheless be some acid friction between Bevin, who was the brains of the General Strike, and men who helped break it; between others who had learned not to trust each other's judgment in the past and had no particular assurance that in a pinch they could trust each other's judgment...
...appeared in a major league uniform for the first time as a pinch hitter on September 18. Two series later against Bob Harris of the St. Louis Browns, he got his first hit, a 315 foot double off the screen in right field...
...state funeral in the House Chamber) at a time when impatience with Congress, impatience with the delays natural to democracy, was seeping through the U. S. Withal he sponsored some legislation of his own (cotton control, farm-tenant aid, soldiers' rehabilitation). Loyal to Franklin Roosevelt at every pinch save one (in 1938 he refused to sign a petition for discharge of the Wages & Hours Bill from committee), he let himself dream of being his party's 1940 nominee for President. He also let resentful delegates to the Democratic Convention in Chicago cast 329 votes for him for Vice...
...find a way, not merely to make democratic idealism vital and efficient, but to make it more vital and more efficient than its ruthless and terrible rival," he states, noting that in the past ten years "the recipients of a unique educational bounty have done no better in a pinch than their less favored fellows...
This week those eight-and possibly more which were thought to have been transferred at sea or at Bermuda-flew the Union Jack. Where were they going? What duties would be their detail? Their specifications (see p. 19) decided the answers to these questions. In a pinch they might be called on to do almost anything, but they were built for convoy service, and for convoy they were doubtless destined. If the Battle of Britain had become a war of attrition, they might have considerable influence on the outcome. Their principal service would be to relieve better British destroyers...