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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Issue. That this attack was not directly aimed at Opponent Willkie, but at some of his supporters, made it only slightly less effective oratorical ammunition. As a whole the debate was fought by both candidates on the bad past record of the other side. On important present issues they seldom came to grips. On only one such issue did both declare themselves, although mostly by implication: Candidate Roosevelt insisted that the New Deal's methods of dealing with business had been necessary for the welfare of labor and business alike; Candidate Willkie maintained that neither social advances nor defense...
Another figure from the past who reappeared was Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, Poland's rusted little iron man and chief of her vanquished Army, who deserted his fighting troops and skipped across to Rumania a jump ahead of the German Army. From his Carpathian mountain villa, where he had led a life of dignified internment, the Gestapo hauled him to Bucharest for investigation in connection with alleged espionage and sabotage in Rumania, said to involve 7,000 refugee Poles...
...into Hendon Police Court on a drunken-driving charge. She proved that her physician was having her take a tablespoonful of whiskey every two hours to steady her nerves against the Blitz, notwithstanding was fined $80. One Alfred Jack Perry, 34, was arraigned at Stratford-on-Avon for walking past a time bomb against police orders. "This was sheer obstinacy!" boomed the mag istrate, fined Jack...
...Cardinals' General Manager Branch Rickey, never noted for keeping aging ballplayers, kept Martin long past his prime. Three years ago he declared: "That Pepper Martin will never be sold or traded." But last fortnight, as it must to all ballplayers, the end of his major-league career came to Pepper Martin at 36. To pasture in Sacramento, where he will manage a Cardinals' farm club, went the Wild Horse of the Osage...
...through its great era when Italian Singer Tony Pastor purified it, to its death. It is a must book for rememberers of such vaudeville chains as the Keith-Albee, Orpheum, Sylvester Z. Poli, Alexander Pantages, Gus Sun, Sullivan & Considine, Fred Mozart, Kohl & Castle, Mike Shea. Sample items from the past of a passing art form...