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Nile Kinnick correspondence, June-August 1942
1942-07-26: Front
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Sunday evening, July 26. 1942 Dear SB: That was a carping letter that I wrote in Adel yesterday, and I perhaps shouldn't have sounded off so. It is rather hard to keep buttoned up when the emergency seems to be so acute and when the boys who are supposed to run the show give the rather definite appearance of playing the galleries and letting against the home team. The right to holler is our blessed right, but certainly we shouldn't abuse it. As I said, however, I believe those boys who pan the administration and everybody else who have their fingers in the pie, can and doserve a real purpose in blowing away the smoke screens. More power, and I want to definitely include old Westbrook P. His stuff doesn't appear in the Omaha sheet all of the time, but I certainly want to yell "Sic 'em" when he starts into the labor barons and racketeers. That has developed into one of the first class messes that this country has ever smelled. And WP doesn't hesitate to call the boys by name with adjectives unrestrained. I wonder if he wears an iron vest. Last evening's drive back from Adel was one of the very finest we have ever had. A shower at Adair to cool and clean the atmosphere; a gorgeous sunset as a backdrop for the rolling Iowa landscape fairly bursting with abundance. As the shades of evening lowered o'er the scene I noted a couple of men and a boy covering a combine for the night (working on Sunday to get in the harvest is quite a proper activity you know)
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Sunday evening, July 26. 1942 Dear SB: That was a carping letter that I wrote in Adel yesterday, and I perhaps shouldn't have sounded off so. It is rather hard to keep buttoned up when the emergency seems to be so acute and when the boys who are supposed to run the show give the rather definite appearance of playing the galleries and letting against the home team. The right to holler is our blessed right, but certainly we shouldn't abuse it. As I said, however, I believe those boys who pan the administration and everybody else who have their fingers in the pie, can and doserve a real purpose in blowing away the smoke screens. More power, and I want to definitely include old Westbrook P. His stuff doesn't appear in the Omaha sheet all of the time, but I certainly want to yell "Sic 'em" when he starts into the labor barons and racketeers. That has developed into one of the first class messes that this country has ever smelled. And WP doesn't hesitate to call the boys by name with adjectives unrestrained. I wonder if he wears an iron vest. Last evening's drive back from Adel was one of the very finest we have ever had. A shower at Adair to cool and clean the atmosphere; a gorgeous sunset as a backdrop for the rolling Iowa landscape fairly bursting with abundance. As the shades of evening lowered o'er the scene I noted a couple of men and a boy covering a combine for the night (working on Sunday to get in the harvest is quite a proper activity you know)
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