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...yelling horde on Federal Street, breaking through police lines to the car in which the President and Steelmaker Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube, were riding.* Democrats had no success in the steel country when Franklin Roosevelt campaigned in 1920; the great steel strike of 1919 was a raw memory; the Democratic machine was broken; a short, savage depression was beginning...
...moment of "deep meaning" not only to the United States; nor merely to individual young men; but to youth-as-a-whole, to the great mass of students and workers and would-be workers who form the raw material of the American youth movement...
...athletes and scholars alike. They even prefer gaining an education to gaining yardage on the gridiron. Naturally, every preference in admissions should be given to the scholar-athlete. If a man has both high marks and a good athletic record in high school, be is the perfect type of raw material for both the Harvard football coaches and the professors. The scholar-athlete is the best type of man not because he can help Harvard but because Harvard can help...
...Ironpants (General Hugh S.) Johnson called this performance draft-dodging, nepotism, despicable and raw. Elliott Roosevelt pointed to the magnitude of his own sacrifice of income* (as news commentator for Emerson Radio, as operator of two Texas radio stations), pointed to General Johnson as "a disgusting...
...this meant that automen had to keep a sharp lookout too. Their suppliers-processors of steel, lumber, textiles, etc.-are pretty well covered on their raw material needs into the first quarter of 1941. But if pressed too hard by a booming auto industry these suppliers might suddenly decide that the twin-motored Defense and consumer boom is heading them into inventory trouble-trouble, for once, on the short side. In that case, they might all jump into the commodities markets together, attempt to stock up for capacity operations through the end of 1941. Such a forward-buying movement would...