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...through France. The Germans lined the road on the French side of the Hendaye bridge with tanks and motorized equipment to a depth of a mile and a half. This implied threat and, even more, the influence of his strongman brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, led Franco to change his mind...
...brother-in-law-issimo is a none-too-gentle jibe at both Serrano and the Generalissimo. Privately they sometimes call Franco "that pulpy olive fashioned into the likeness of a man." For most Spaniards feel that Franco is a wobbler, that Ramón Serrano Suñer is the power behind the fasces...
Serrano Suñer was educated in Italy, where he absorbed his Fascist ideas. He married the sister of Franco's wife. Under the Republic he was an obscure Govern ment lawyer, but when the death of General José Sanjurjo made Franco leader of the Rightist revolution Serrano saw his chance to impose his ideas on the politically uneducated Generalissimo. Lean, tanned and photogenic, Serrano has a driving nervous energy. His was the idea to fuse Spain's heterogeneous Rightist elements - Carlists, Monarchists, Traditionalists, Fascists - into the Falange. While the soldiers fought at the front, he organized...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, who had flown on to address the Convention, failed to calm them in a speech emphasizing the terrible burden of the Presidency in these times. On the floor Henry Wallace had no more than 50 personal votes. But candidate after candidate withdrew. One of them, tall ioo%er Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, purged himself all the way out of the New Deal with an opening remark of eight significant words: "Had this been a free and open convention...
Meanwhile many a builder and architect (but nary a N. A. B. 0. M.-er) wondered whether Pittsburgh and Scranton, Pa. did not have the right idea in taxing land at twice the rate of property improvements. This tax tends to depress price of vacant land, make it readily available to builders. Early this spring, Scranton had taken title to 6,000 unsalable, tax-delinquent properties, hoped to make up for its tax losses by renting them itself...