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Only a few weeks ago, revolt against the New Deal had fired the Governors to high talk. They were solemnly resoluting again when Franklin Roosevelt headed south. Each Governor scurried to his home state to meet the President. After they had ridden with him in pomp & circumstance, the Governors whistled a notably different tune...
Tomorrow the last eighteen horses stationed with the Harvard Regiment will leave for Maynard, Mass., to the MP detachment stationed there. They will be ridden there by cadets with riding passes. The first group of twenty-eight departed for the remount station, Fort Royal, Virginia, last Monday...
...believe that all men were born worthy of an equal chance. Then the U.S. would move forward, to vistas beyond the imagination, under the leadership of "a natural aristocracy . . . the grounds for [which] are not wealth and birth, but talents and virtue." In his old age, infirm and debt-ridden from the years he had given his country, he had the abiding faith to write: "I have observed this march of civilization advancing from the seacoast, passing over us like a cloud of light, increasing our knowledge and improving our condition. . . . And where this progress will stop...
Breger was born in Chicago a few weeks after his parents reached the U.S. from the Ukraine. He studied abnormal psychology at Northwestern University, graduated in depression-ridden 1931, found jobs scarce. A man able to face facts, he forthwith entered his father's sausage business in Chicago. As office manager, his chief contribution was a slogan: "Our Wurst Is The Best...
Frenchmen in sweltering, graft-ridden French Guiana (home of Devil's Island) believed what they heard: General Charles de Gaulle of the Fighting French and General Henri Giraud in North Africa were uniting in the cause of French liberation. That was enough...