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Under the green-decked, beflagged arch of the station entrance, down oak-garlanded stairs lined with Elite Guard troopers, he marched, smiled and saluted acknowledgment to straining thousands in the streets. With the savage chant of Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! ringing in his ears, he entered his automobile, began a triumphal journey to the Chancellery as crowds cheered and wept themselves into hysteria. On either side swastika banners covered the building fronts, garlands of flowers hung across the street on golden cords, bands thundered out continuously his favorite Badenweiler March. The pavement beneath was a multicolored blanket of flowers strewn...
...Cummings: "If you will stand in the supposed fountain at Washington Square, New York City, and look up at the so-called arch, you will find yourself reading 22 words by a man now living." (The words are George Washington's to the Constitutional Convention: "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand...
...that it is our will that as a political power he shall be destroyed from the face of the earth, and that every item of our strength and every bit of our courage and all of our resources we dedicate to the honorable cause of his destruction as the arch foe of decent...
Captain von Rintelen, who came to England in 1926 when he fell out with Arch-Intrigant Franz von Papen, was arrested even though he is over 60, the age limit for interning enemy aliens. Styling himself a "fugitive from Naziism." Rintelen is known in England as an elderly Beau Brummel and author of a best-seller on espionage. Americans remember him as a slick spy who caused $50,000,000 worth of damage to American industry and commerce in World War I. He expressed surprise at his arrest, but decided to "take it philosophically...
Ever since 1911, when Henry Ford won the basic Selden patent suit against most of the rest of the automobile industry, he has gone his own way, had no truck with the Automobile Manufacturers' Association, held his own auto shows, stood out in a cooperative industry as an arch-individualist. Exceptions: 1) after Ford Motor Co. bought Lincoln Motor Co., an A. M. A. member, Lincolns continued to take part in A. M. A. shows; 2) Ford suggested and cooperated in the industrywide Used Car Week of 1939; 3) Ford joined in the simultaneous introduction of the Sealed-Beam...