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...screamed. (For the Congressional Record he edited this to "You poor, misguided creatures.") "I cannot understand you. You did what the New Dealers shied away from doing for 16 long years." He threatened the South with revenge. "We are going to remove all quotas on cotton imports . . . If you pull us down, by the eternal, we will pull you down with...
...commitment. It was not forthcoming. Pundit Walter Lippmann and others noted that the U.S. could hardly help going to war if Russia attacked Western Europe, since U.S. troops east of the Rhine would have to be pushed aside first. But Europeans wondered whether, in that case, the U.S. would pull its troops out or pour more...
...couldn't pull off a deal like that in any other country. Americans are uniquely prone to isolate emotion from life, and so cut off it inevitably turns to cheap sentimentality. The treatment of mothers is one indication of the general American attitude toward women; the plight of the wife ("the little woman") is well enough known and horrible. And so far she is Day-less. As for mothers, their main trouble is usually that they have too much to do in the early years and not enough later on. The plight of the American woman whose children...
Harvard will take it on the chin financially if Congress passes the draft, and only a new jump in tuition and rent will pull...
Dean Bender yesterday predicted that the Andrews Bill would pull 500 men out of the College each year, and that the Faculty would vote new price increases to offset the resulting deficit...