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Well he recalled that Candidate Charles Evans Hughes's failure to shake Hiram Johnson's hand in 1916 had cost him California, and California had cost him the Presidency. The moment the candidate crossed the California State line he came out with a bellow for that "great, fighting, fearless liberal, Hiram Johnson"-isolationist Senator Johnson, who has opposed much that Candidate Willkie stands for, particularly aid to the Allies. To the Willkie overture Senator Johnson made no immediately audible reply...
...years' standing. But whichever way it moves, the Legion well do its country a service by thinking its problems through to the end and stating its position clearly enough for all to grasp. Its influence is great, but no greater than its responsibility. Let the thousands of delegates shake staid old Boston like a toy rattle, led them tic up traffic in knots the Boy Scouts never heard of, but still the eyes of the nation will watch intently for the outcome of this convention...
Foreign Minister Matsuoka began sending Japanese policy to the cleaners without delay. In the most drastic shake-up in the history of Japan's diplomatic service he recalled 40 diplomats suspected of leaning toward the London-Washington Axis. Most experienced and important diplomat purged was Ambassador to Washington Kensuke Horinouchi, who is tactful, smooth and inoffensive, but decidedly no ball of fire. By last week five men had respectfully declined the post of Ball-of-Fire to Washington. Reason: relations between Japan and the U. S. are fast getting no better...
Wendell Willkie stepped out of his office on Rushville's North Harrison Street one day last week, walked into a knot of well-wishers. One woman gushed: "Oh, Mr. Willkie, I've always wanted to shake hands with you." They shook hands...
...real workers' revolution, but it was split by schisms, numbered less than 5,000 members. Trotsky still believed the revolt of the workers would succeed. The force of that illusion made him a greater man than Joseph Stalin. It made him the man who did more to shake the world in his time than any except Lenin and Hitler...