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...hoped, that the Waterloo would be Henry Wallace's. There was some reason for his belief. Anti-Wallacemen, like North Carolina's upright Josiah Bailey, seemed in complete control. Senator Barkley and Vice President Truman went humbly to Joe Bailey, pleaded with him for an hour to relent. "Holy Joe" Bailey would...
...sheep in the churchyard. When in 1923, Dr. Guthrie put on a show of eurythmic dances in the church by six bare-legged Barnard girls, Bishop William Thomas Manning removed St. Mark's from his Episcopal visiting list (so that members had to be confirmed elsewhere), did not relent until 1932, when the dances were discontinued for lack of funds. On his retirement in 1937, Dr. Guthrie paid his respects to the Episcopal Church, which he called "the least intolerable" of churches: "It was organized by gentlemen for gentlemen, and you can break the law if you know...
...Georgie Patton, the Senators, who had brooded seven months over his case, indicated that they might relent later. Said one Committeeman: "If he does something gallant in the field, if he makes a good record in the invasion, he'll probably come through all right. But he'll have to keep his mouth shut and control his temper...
...sole Republican colleague. A chairman picked on a strict seniority basis would have been Healy himself. But the Judge would always be more effective as an outsider-storming, needling, threatening to resign. Evidently Mr. Roosevelt hoped he would stay on in that effective role, to storm, threaten and relent many times again
Only one nation has the power to alter these time limits for the Japanese Empire: the United States. Last week a great debate raged in Tokyo. The Navy-and-civilian-dominated Government of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye wanted to persuade the U.S. to relent and alter the fixed time limits. The Japanese Army, struggling for power in the Government, felt that U.S. policy was inexorably fixed, that Japan must move before the time limits expired...