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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Editor Eggleston got his friend Douglas Stewart, a New Deal-hating, Wall Street economist, to put some money into Scribner's Commentator. Last March they began reorganizing it. Out went Editor Francis Rufus Bellamy, Managing Editor Fred Hamlin, other editorial associates who were unsympathetic to their new policies. So far they have not only the satisfaction of promoting isolationism, but they claim it pays-that it has doubled Commentator's circulation, reduced operating losses very comfortably...
...news was withheld for several hours. Then President Roosevelt, cruising on the Tuscaloosa in the Caribbean, sent a message to King George VI: "I am shocked beyond measure to hear of the sudden passing of my old friend and your Ambassador, the Marquess of Lothian. I am very certain that if he had been allowed by Providence to leave us a last message he would have told us that the greatest of all efforts to retain democracy in the world must and will succeed...
Labor groaned at his election, called him a "tool of the power trust." More important, Montreal suspected that Mayor Raynault was a political stalking horse for Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, Quebec boss of the conservatives. Duplessis, no friend of Great Britain, lost his provincial premiership and control of the Legislature in the first flush of Canada's war enthusiasm a year ago, but is struggling for a comeback. He represents a great body of French Canadians who are getting almost as wary of World War II as they were of World War I (when there were ugly antidraft riots...
Shortly after he got his Concordat, Hitler got the Protestant Reichsbishop he wanted. In the spring of 1933 Germany's Protestants (Lutheran. Reformed) voluntarily merged into the German Evangelical Church. To head it, the Nazis nominated Army Chaplain Ludwig Müller. a friend of Hitler and leader of the Nazified Deutsche Christen (the "German Christians...
...last week 20 of the pioneers had formed a syndicate, prepared to stake out their claims in Mexico City. Their proposal: if Avila Camacho would undo some liberal reforms of his great & good friend ex-President Cardenas, they would give chicle-growing Mexico $100,000,000 to chew on. "Steps necessary to the economic rehabilitation of Mexico" included 1) lifting immigration bars to bring in skilled labor, 2) revision of expropriation laws to guarantee foreign investments, 3) reorganization of the nationalized railroads, 4) mechanization of farms, 5) a network of five U. S. highways converging on Mexico City...