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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hurley, who got his start as a mule boy in a coal mine. When Pat Hurley took office in 1929, no finer figure of a man had ever graced a Cabinet meeting. Six feet tall, erect as a wooden Indian, blue-eyed, black-mustached, Secretary Hurley was a sight for sore eyes. From far-off Oklahoma they watched him with love. "Due to Pat," wrote Oklahoma's late Will Rogers, "we're liable to wake up some day with Presidential timber on our hands right down home...
...infant, the Alcoa suit had already smashed all long-distance records for U. S. court cases. Yellow with age are the early pages of testimony in its 61-volume record. Stacked high in the courtroom are the 68 volumes holding 1,462 exhibits. Still the end is not in sight. Maybe next June, the Alcoa case's second anniversary. Maybe not before election next November. When it does come, it will not be the end. The U. S. Supreme Court will write the final chapter...
...outburst as reflecting official American views. But the ambassador's pipe contains only ashes. "How easy," he cries, "it is for unthinking people to proclaim that what happens in Europe is no concern of theirs. . . . How easy to shut one's eyes and thus seek to avoid the horrid sight of the bloody and seething world revolution which threatens to overwhelm...
...shutting his eyes to the horrid sight of Europe at war. The great majority of Americans merely feel that the United States can best serve the cause of democracy by maintaining it here. They do not wish to add to Europe's blood-bath by our participation in it. Accordingly, they deplore the crusading blasts of James H. R. Cromwell as the type of emotionalism which leads straight to the front-line trenches...
...ship was about to collide with the landing float. "First to volunteer," explained he, "was no strong husky male but a frail Dresden China 'doll'. . . . Other persons promptly followed and, in their eagerness, pushed the celestial maiden overboard. . . . Although the girl was drowning in full sight of thousands of Chinese they, with much better appreciation of China's tremendous population than I, passively watched her float past...