Word: files
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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From the evidence seized, the Gendarmes claimed proof of an armed, thoroughly organized Nazi militia, planning "liquidation" of local Government officials, destruction of food and fuel deposits, armed resistance in case of attack. General Calderon published photographs of arms caches; Commandant Barres told of radio transmitters, a card file containing names, personal characteristics, technical aptitudes of all Germans in the district. Significant was "an official German map" of Europe and South America, marked with a red band extending from Germany downward through Brazil, covering all Misiones Territory...
This week the Texas Corp. directors had to face a further decision: whether to sever Director Rieber from the company completely by taking away his directorship. For the rank & file of Texas Corp. employes, that question was academic. They knew it would be a cold day before they could forget the greying, generous, powerfully built man who slapped them on the back and said: "This is the best God damn company in the world"; who built the famed Barco pipeline in Colombia after they said it couldn't be done; who once exclaimed: "Hell, if they wanted to move...
Trade or Craft? Of the 1,467 Times employes who are eligible to join the Guild, about 350 are actual newsmen. The rest are advertising men, stenographers, file clerks, copy boys, scrub women, etc. The Guild claims 600 members on the Times, some 400 of them paid up. Bill Laurence holds that no more than 75 of these Times Guildsmen are editorial workers, claims that A. N. W. A. already has twice as many...
When able Cary Augustus Hardee, onetime Governor of Florida, fired away at Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight without coming out for his opponent, Candidate Willkie kept silent. Blasted Cary Hardee: "We will hear much in this campaign from the 'pie counter' crowd about how the rank and file of a great people drafted Mr. Roosevelt. Will the people be fooled by it?" But when aging (73) isolationist Senator Hiram Johnson denounced the President for calling him no longer liberal, the Republican nominee chimed in. Observed he: "I would be delighted if a great progressive like Hiram Johnson...
...Capitolio, stood chatting in the lobby at the head of the long flight of marble steps. Only dark patch in the sea of white was the conservative blue business suit draping the lank frame of U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. A long file of big beflagged cars moved slowly through the surrounding palm-shaded park, bringing more conferees to the red-carpeted entrance. By 10 o'clock committees were already at work in secret session, hammering away at the 56 proposals presented for consideration. Along the colored marble corridors, decorated with gold leaf and mahogany, moved other...