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...Deal was a gigantic political scheme to raze U. S. business to a dead level and debase the citizenry into a mass of ballot-casting serfs. In this conviction he is deadly serious. He regards the New Dealers as brigands & thugs, intent on robbing U. S. voters of their precious heritage of independence, on stifling free enterprise -a band of evil men masquerading as humanitarians. If by some evil chance Roosevelt should be re-elected in 1940, it will mean, he thinks, the end of the road, the death of the American way. When he talks of this nefarious possibility...
...political or physical heat in Rome, taking with him his debauched court for protracted binges. Legend had it that from just such a party the catastrophe-loving emperor slipped ashore, amused himself by having the ships sunk with all on board. More probable, in view of the paucity of precious metals found on them, was the contention that succeeding rulers, sick of anything remotely pertaining to the hated Caligula, stripped the ships and allowed them...
Died. Thomas Beer, 50, author of The Mauve Decade, Stephen Crane, Hanna; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Slow and obliquely precious in his writing, he produced few books, many potboilers for the Satevepost. Hipped on the influence of visual color on human life, he struggled ten years to prove his spectrum, left an unfinished volume on the subject...
...people of King Kamehameha. When her anger stirred, Kamehameha's subjects quaked. She scooped up blood-red lava from the great holes of Mauna Loa, Kilauea, Hualalai, and poured it steaming across the island of Hawaii. To her Hawaiians sacrificed many a pig, many a steer, precious possessions. In caverns formed by the hardened lava, the corpses of ancient kings and the loftier chieftains were interred, with weapons, canoes, feather cloaks, as richly red and yellow as volcanic fires...
...Dudley is an "all-arounder" whose thoroughness is not pedantic, whose energy succumbs to neither red tape nor his chronic arthritis. He is also a good bluffer when occasion demands. With precious few rounds of ammunition on his economy-stripped ships, when he was chief of staff to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1935 he cheekily told the Italians where to head...