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Then came what to Farley was "the final shock." Roosevelt said: "By the way, Jim, the family is not going to the convention. Undoubtedly I will accept the nomination by radio and will arrange to talk to the delegates before they leave the convention hall after the nomination...
...tight lips are the very stuff of England today; if is difficult to visualise such a life existing in any other country. Accustomed to thinking of the British as always restrained, we tend to accept their present condition as natural and bearable. But it is, not, and the dull shock of tired nerves is beginning to spread, like battle fatigue after the excitement of combat wears off. The surface annoyances of life are so great, the bareness of the next few years so obvious, that one is amazed at the basic popularity of the government. It continues to be supported...
...must by law,* the House first picked up the challenge flung by Harry Truman. Its first item of business was the President's veto of the tax-cut bill (TIME, June 23), which House Republicans were determined to override. They got a shock. Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn had done a fast job of rounding up diffident Democrats. He had also corralled two rebel Republicans-Wisconsin's stolid ex-Progressive, Merlin Hull, and Minnesota's sharp-faced Carl Anderson. When the vote was counted, and breathlessly recounted, Hull and Anderson represented the margin of Administration victory. If they...
...Scott gets good & sore at his wife, he just can't give a hoot for moneymaking, and that neglect is represented as close to the ultimate catastrophe. But he recovers. Within a few hours after she has killed a man in her parlor, and is still suffering from shock, he leaves her, with her entire approval, for more important matters at The Office...
...University of Chicago's Dr. Dallas B. Phemister, 64, chairman of the department of surgery. Shy Dr. Phemister first demonstrated that surgical shock was the result of blood loss from effective circulation; he also devised an operative procedure to arrest bone growth where disease made children's limbs unequal...