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...days ended with a crash in Washington last week. The President began moving forcefully, directly, and broadly-ordering activities ahead on many fronts, hammering powerfully through his own work-cluttered desk, speaking his mind with a new clarity and simplicity. As always, all Washington began moving, catching the rhythm from the stroke of the crew. All along the line were signs of progress. Many of the things done were things that should have been done once-upon-a-time-long, long ago. But the big fact was that, belated or not, these things were getting done now. The U.S. pondered...
...meeting, so Benito took his son Vittorio-the aviator who five years ago loved to watch the floral explosion of bombs among the Ethiopians. Reich Marshal Hermann Göring thoughtfully presented Benito with an album of photographs which his second son Bruno, who died in a crash last month, had taken while visiting Germany's Atlantic air bases...
...first tests, North Carolina shed only superficial skin. Light doors on deck cleaning-gear lockers warped and hung from their hinges in her hot breath, and strip molding from the wardroom overhead dropped down with a jangling crash. But damage-control crews found no major shaking-up. In her first try, North Carolina did better than many an oldtime battlewagon does in target practice...
...controlling the masses. Mein Kampf told how it could be done. My New Order shows Hitler doing it. For Hitler towers among history's demagogues because he understands better than others that the timing between oratory and action must be like the interval between the flash and the crash...
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Columbia). There is hell to pay when Celestial Messenger No. 7013 (Edward Everett Horton) returns to heaven with the soul of a prize fighter (Robert Montgomery) snatched from his private plane before it crashed to earth in "a place called New Jersey." No. 7013, a green and sentimental hand, wanted to spare the fighter the pain of crashing. But The Book says that the fighter is scheduled to live for 50 more years, meantime becoming world's heavyweight champion. He would have survived the crash; he must be returned to his earthly body...