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...This search for leadership was just as deep in Congress itself. Republicans and Democrats alike were casting about for the man or men who could set forth a program of principles which they could follow, in all conscience. These, the very men supposed to generate leadership, were leaderless. The spectacle of Congress thrashing about was a significant index to the national need...
...played with the masses and titillated them with the most contradictory assertions." Heiden believes that "it is this art of contradiction which makes him the greatest . . . propagandist of his time. . . . He follows the shifting currents of public opinion," knowing always that "the weakness of this intellectual age" is its search for "the man who can master it. ... One scarcely need ask with what arts he conquered the masses; he did not conquer them, he portrayed and represented them...
Cooperation with the Allies recently saved thousands of Partisans in the Croatian capital of Zagreb. Tipped off that patriots had sneaked into the city to prepare an attack, the Gestapo ordered a 14-hour, house-to-house search. Soldiers had orders to guard the streets, shoot pedestrians. Tito broadcast an urgent appeal to Allied headquarters in Italy. In immediate reply, Allied bombers flew over Zagreb. The Germans had to sound an alarm. In the confusion, most of the Partisans escaped...
...Woman must secure governmental control of the munitions industry so that the vicious conditions unearthed by the Nye Committee will not be repeated. But she is never going to do this by performing the fallacious errand of scuttling back to the kitchen to search for her soul...
...blockhead. Jimmy at once protested, "You paid me a compliment when you said my head was made of wood," and launched into a lecture on the virtues of timber. As this reached religious heat, the other members of the team, thoroughly sold on wood, joined Durante in a search for samples. They proceeded to a methodical separation of the nightclub, snatched violins from the orchestra, went backstage and to the kitchen for mixing bowls and stepladders. Gradually they covered the dance floor with assorted woodwork (pushcarts, wooden Indians, rickshaws), reaching a climax by carrying in a birchbark canoe...