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...have some conception of what $270,000,000 means in the way of concentrated sweat and labor of men. ... It is my belief that the power generated in connection with such projects should be sold for the benefit of the people and that the people of the areas affected should determine whether it should be distributed through privately or publicly-owned local utilities...
...Will." Jasper's First Methodist Church was roped off-a piece of twine strung from a telephone pole to a soapbox to a fireplug to another telephone pole. Men in overalls and blue denim shirts lined the street. Fans waved under tattered parasols. The loudspeaker brayed a prayer. Sweat-stained hats came off; the crowd's murmur hushed. Children scuffed their feet in the dusty heat...
...miles above Chattanooga, President Roosevelt this week made his first major address since he accepted the Democratic nomination for the Third Term. Hatless in the withering sun, he sat in the back seat of an open car that had been run up on a hastily-built slack pine ramp. Sweat poured down the President's face, soaked through his seersucker suit...
...Sweat, Blood, Loneliness. Senator McNary warmed up his 12,000 listening Oregonians with a salute to the Oregon Trail. In a country where pioneers' picnics are an annual event and where the wheel marks of wagon trails still show near Emigrant Springs Park, that is as necessary as a tribute to Robert E. Lee once was in the South. But the Senator, who still farms land that he worked on as a boy, called it the iron road, the name given it by the people who followed it - "from the Great Bend of the Missouri to the banks...
...moved from behind the protective trees; the full light fell on Wendell Willkie's sweat-shined face and tousled hair as he called out his challenge to Franklin Roosevelt: "I charge that the course this administration is following will lead us, like France, to the end of the road ... to economic disintegration and dictatorship. This is a serious charge. It is not lightly made. It cannot be lightly avoided. ... I, therefore, have a proposal to make. The President stated in his acceptance speech that he does not have either 'the time or the inclinations to engage in purely...