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...Paul V. McNutt, the much-hated autocrat of Indiana, although he had a good, safe, well-paid berth in Texas during the War, did not hesitate to shove aside those who had suffered hell in Flanders Field and grab for himself the fat salary and honors which the real soldiers...
Later: "I hear from fairly good sources that America is on the verge of Communism. . . . The sailors on the big war ships have their red flags all ready to hoist to the tune of the Internationale. If the NRA fails, there is bound to be Hell popping...
...current three centuries ago, they have been shown to draw most heavily upon two obscure books of the mid-19th Century. First of these, published in Brussels in 1865, was a political attack on Napoleon III, written by a French lawyer named Maurice Joly and entitled A Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu. In this work, for publishing which its author was jailed for 18 months, the famed French essayist acts as literary stooge to the Italian courtier, whose unscrupulous policies are, by implication, ascribed to the Bonaparte Emperor...
...course the TVA deal came before the Tennessee Railroad & Public Utilities Commission. Back from Britain, Director Lilienthal was called as a witness. Just before he took the stand, he boasted to newshawks: "In spite of hell & high water, the TVA is going great guns. We find ourselves with ample funds and with a splendid personnel." Mr. Lilienthal won his case before the Tennessee Commission on the ground of "public interest...
...boasted old-time Cinemactor William S. Hart, whose estranged wife Winifred Westover has custody of William S. Hart Jr., 12. "Why, he walks down the street with his mother and people turn and stare and say, 'There goes Bill Hart.' It makes his mother sore as hell...