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...days later Pressureman Papen, much happier than he was a year ago when Turkey jilted Germany for the Allies, was reported on a shooting party with Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano. (This was denied in Berlin.) Whatever plans the Axis had for Turkey in the future, the threat of German action through Bulgaria, if Turkey should help Greece, was enough to keep Turkey precariously neutral last week. President Inönü made a firm speech saying that his country would "continue faithful to our friendships and alliances" (Turkey...
...happier times campaigning had been a pleasure keener than stamp collecting. But last week there was a difference. Some things had changed. To politick is to try to win. And Franklin Roosevelt had said, in all but words, that he was trying to win a position not yet official, but certainly more real every day: Presidency of the Western Hemisphere. A month ago it had looked like a Roosevelt landslide, last week it no longer looked that...
...Federal Government gradually takes over the economic instrumentalities of this country." His statement of the importance of the 1940 campaign: the people are called to decide for or against the socialization of the U. S. "If you are of that school of thought that thinks that society would be happier and men would lead more pleasant lives if all of the economic instrumentalities of the nation were controlled by the State, then you should . . . follow the banner of the third term candidate...
...steelmaker was happier about the nature of this boom last week than the industry's No. 4 unit, 90-year-old Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. For four uncertain years J. & L. has been slightly out of step. Its plants are all in the long-suffering Pittsburgh district, headquarters of heavy steel. Its preferred-stock arrearage has grown from $21.25 then to $43.50 a share now. Its new (in 1936) boss, up-from-the-mills Horace Edgar Lewis, has had to be tough. He tried to balance J. & L.'s heavy wares by building a gigantic strip mill...
...Germans conquered France and expunged the old humiliation, a new Hitler began to appear. His gloomy, impenetrable reserve began to flake off. When the French capitulation was handed him he actually snapped his fingers, chuckled, did a little goose step (TIME, July 8). Last week the new Hitler was happier than ever...