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...trays of raw. fish and rafts of politicians, Prince Konoye simply told the Army and Navy what he stood for and directed them to submit the names of candidates for their ministries. When they did, he summoned three men. The first, onetime president of the monopolistic South Manchuria Railway Yosuke Matsuoka, promptly accepted the ticklish post of Foreign Minister. The second, Director General of Military Aviation Lieut. Gen eral Eiki Tojo, took the War Ministry; and the third, Yonai's Navy Minister Vice Admiral Zengo Yoshida, agreed to stay in office...
Sometown in the U. S. in 1914. learning that Archduke Ferdinand has been assassinated at Sarajevo, asks whether an archduke is like a prince. News of the mobilization of 17,000,000 Europeans is like the story of a distant railway wreck, a fire in a house far away. Then one day Joe Kovacs gets a letter with a foreign stamp, from Austria, and his wife brings it to him at work. Joe Kovacs' class has been called, his fatherland has ordered him to arms, and Joe must go. At the Plaza Theatre that night, sitting with his neighbors...
When the prisoners were thus ready to be returned to the outside world, the Communist authorities gave each Radziwill two sets of clothing, put them on a special railway car and ran it into the German slice of Poland. There the Radziwills were delivered to the Nazis and interned...
...Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co.'s Hugh Morrow announced he would raise an army of 30,000 Willkie campaign volunteers. Other typical Willkie enthusiasts: Wall Street Lawyer Arthur A. Ballantine, Armstrong Cork Co.'s President Henning Webb Prentis Jr., Chrysler Corp. Director Harold Elstner Talbott Jr., Southern Railway President Ernest E. Norris. In the industrial South, businessmen's private talk indicated that many an anti-New Deal Democrat would break ranks for Willkie. Lesser-known backers who typify the kind of businessman Willkie represents: Brother Herman Frederick Willkie, Louisville vice president of Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, a production...
...eventually increased to over a million. Then they began to dwindle. Wolves, which developed a finicky taste for reindeer tongues, took a heavy toll. Some reindeer wandered off to join the wild caribou. White herders had encroached on the field. One big firm, the Lomen brothers, built slaughterhouses and railway loading platforms, began shipping choice reindeer steaks and reindeer dog food to the States. Discouraged by this high-powered competition, the Eskimos began to lose much of their interest in herding reindeer...