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Next to Henry and Edsel Ford, the Czechoslovak family of Bat'a (pro- nounced Bahtya) continue to be the world's most vigorous "Fordizers." Fifty-seven years ago the spouse of a poor cobbler in Zlin bore Thomas Bat'a. In a heroic life of mechanized striving he made Zlin the "Shoe Capital" of Europe. Because, like Henry Ford, he profoundly mistrusted financiers, Thomas Bat'a took fanatical care to remain the First Working Partner in a partnership which embraced all his employes. No one outside the partnership may own Bat'a stock. In Zlin...
...lives of our countrymen and directs the destiny of the Nation. As one of the latter class I confess a profound sense of gratitude that the turn of fate finds me in Washington at a time when the Republic is in the midst of one of the most heroic struggles in its history...
...speak for its defence, he found an easy mark; yet he derived no satisfaction from the support which the modern debacle gave to his doctrines. He fought in a desperate cause; indeed, in President Lowell's phrase "with the courage to proclaim unpopular opinions in troubled times." The heroic tenacity he showed in his life, as in his convictions, gave him strength to rise daily from his sick-bed to lecture throughout the last eight months, nor did he let his illness impair his amazing tolerance and accessibility. Now that death has swept away one of the strongest bulwarks against...
...creaking old war boats put on their best speed. They had to pass Shanghai, where the Chinese Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek keeps its apology for a navy, but that offered no fight, simply ignored the mutineers. Wallowing on toward Canton they stopped at Amoy-in case the heroic 19th Route Army now stationed there should want to buy a navy...
...front cover) Adolf Hitler in repose can look as flaccid as a circus fat lady, but so far as the German people know he never rests from his heroic labors, dashes constantly up and down the Fatherland in multi-motored planes, never smokes and subsists wholly on fruit, vegetables, nuts, and dairy products. Last week the Vegetarian Superman flew over Poland's hated Corridor to a big cozy country house at Neudeck in East Prussia. There he gripped hands with that hearty eater of tenderloin steaks, pork sausages, pigs-knuckles and chopped raw beef & onions, President Paul von Beneckendorff...