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Axis Antics. In Germany, the Nazi boss's flight caused almost as many Governmental contortions as it did in Great Britain, thus tending to indicate that had the British shut up and sat tight they would have had the Nazis well over a barrel. Lord Haw-Haw had originally announced that Comrade Hess had taken off against the Führer's orders, apparently while insane, probably crashed...
...reckon I'm about as close to cracker-barrel talk as the next one. I run a service station on Los Angeles' industrial southeast side. Washington is about half right when they say the talk is all isolation, defeatism and apathy. It's mainly apathy to Washington's foreign policy...
...became Senator from Catamarca Province. His legislative record consisted of pork-barrel projects and the world's best bankruptcy law. In January 1936, President Agustin P. Justo made him Minister of Justice, later Minister of the Interior. His most notable accomplishment in that office was the establishment of the still-existent Argentine postal censorship. In June 1937 he resigned to campaign for the Vice-Presidency on the coalition ticket headed by Roberto M. Ortiz. Ortiz was a Radical whom the Conservatives thought they could handle, Castillo a Conservative who was considered harmless by the Radicals. Nobody could foresee then...
Working in the studio of the late Sculptor Lorado Taft at Chicago, she analyzed materials from living trees, old log cabins and bridges, refuse from sawmills and barrel factories, charcoal from old campfires, relics from Indian caves and graves, a ton of tree sections supplied by a Wisconsin paper manufacturer who had just taken a paper contract for LIFE. She patiently placed pieces hundreds of years old in sequence by their overlapping ring patterns, and reconstructed growth calendars for several types of trees...
...currents of defeatism in Washington last week. It came not from isolationists. It came from devout New Dealers, adherents of the President's foreign policy. Their theme: the "morale" of the U.S. was bad. President Roosevelt said that the people were not sufficiently "aware," but thought that cracker-barrel talk would make them more so (see p. 13). But Washington believed that around the cracker barrels the talk was all isolation, defeatism, apathy...