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Adolf Hitler called them the "Order of Good Blood," and gave them for a symbol a grinning death's-head. In ten dreadful years, they butchered millions, making good their master's boast that men should "grow sick at the sight of [their] black coats." At Niirnberg, before...
KENYA'S white farmers, many of them impoverished aristocrats and others ex-Indian army colonels and majors, live in lonely gimcrack farmsteads dotted about the exclusive White Highlands.They drink expensive wines and dine off good china, yet few have telephones; farmhouses are miles apart and roads are dreadful. The...
To improve his parliamentary technique, he traveled everywhere with a phonograph on which he played records of the speeches of Britain's Victorian Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, was soon throwing such high-caliber cliches at the Opposition as "Sword of Damocles" and "Bed of Procrustes." On one such...
Snobs & Iodine. Hatlo quit school in Los Angeles at 14, became a printer's devil, and in his spare time was a publicity man for Mack Sennett. He worked his way into cartooning on the sports page of Hearst's San Francisco Bulletin. William R. Hearst himself spotted...
Depression. Almost all his major speeches included sketches of the horrors of the Great Depression. "Conservative, law-abiding farmers organized to march on towns and to loot the stores. Children left home to spare their parents another mouth to feed . . . Millions of American men & women waited in the breadlines ..." The...