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...unshakable will and also my political testament to the German people." cried Hitler, "to consider inviolable for all time the frontiers of the Alps, erected between us by nature. I am certain that for Rome, as well as for Germany, there will result a future that is glorious and prosperous. Duce. just as you and your people have remained true to your friendship in the decisive days, so I, too, and my people are ready to manifest the same friendship to Italy in difficult times. Duce. I raise my glass and drink to your health, to the happiness and greatness...
Father & Sons. In the brief and not particularly glorious record of U. S. third parties since the War, the La Follette family has played a big part. Wisconsin's famed, white-maned Senator Robert Marion La Follette Sr. ran for President on an independent Progressive ticket in 1924, polled nearly 5,000,000 votes. Since his death in 1925, La Follette Progressivism has been ably carried on by his two sons- conscientious dapper "Young Bob," 43, who went to the U. S. Senate in 1925 to fill the unexpired term of his father, and Philip, who has been elected...
...Minnesota shift and were able to carry the ball to our ten-yard line? And how in the last few minutes, as Yale was going to try a goal from the field, they became confused and were unable to get it off before time was called? And then the glorious times that followed--but these are too numerous to write about...
...Conqueror of the Seas Author Zweig admits that Magellan was a secretive, unpersonable dictator. But Magellan's voyage he calls "the most glorious Odyssey in the history of mankind." Magellan he defends as a sincere Christian whose ruthlessness was only an unavoidable means toward a great end. His generally known facts take in less detail than most biographers'. As in Author Zweig's other defenses of historical figures he considers maligned (Marie Antoinette, Mary, Queen oj Scotland and the Isles), his method is that of the biographical essay; his persuasiveness is that of the eloquent defense attorney...
Then came the early teens. "Humming with pseudo-sophisticated nonchalance, we enjoyed our first shave and reminisced on that glorious afternoon when we'd won the game single handed, saved the day, and made the world safe for Democracy. A reaction was only natural for so precocious a youth, and it came in a tendency toward manfully swapping glances with Theda Bara or in clinging to our ideals and displaying a gentle-manly disdain for the mating call of the cow-Balinese in "Goona-Goona." But we soon hit the nadir; we liked our lady friends to wear their skirts...