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...hour and 50 minutes the brass consulted in Fontainebleau's "secret room." Main point of the discussions was what to do with the existing Western Union military organization (TIME, Aug. 1): scrap it for a new overall Atlantic Treaty setup, expand it to include all Atlantic Treaty countries, or make it one of four regional defense groups under an Atlantic Defense Committee? Presumably the Americans also heard arguments on the long-standing dispute between the British and French on whether or not the European continent could be defended against possible Russian attack...
...word telegram, Jersey City's ex-Boss Frank Hague demanded that the Newark News scrap a series of articles on his life which began this week. "A newspaper such as yours," he fumed, ". . . should never undertake to publish the story of my life without my express consent ... I have served 34 years as the head of the Jersey City government and I dare your newspaper to publish one dishonest act of mine ... or point to one breath of scandal or dishonesty in my administration." The News went right on with the Hague biography...
Latinos were in no rush to sign up. Said José Mariano Espinoza y Grande, a Mexico City scrap-iron dealer: "I haven't the money, and I wouldn't buy the title [Conde de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe y Peñasco] from Franco if I did have it." Miguel de Rul y Palma, who lives off Mexican real estate and is eligible to be called the Conde de la Valenciana, made it clear that he admired Franco "in all his aspects. But," he added, "I am not paying for the title...
...poor farmer from the hills of Kentucky, worked in the coal mines until he had saved enough money to buy 200 run-down acres of what had once been the fine land of his ancestors. But before he could begin building the place up, he felt bound to scrap his ambition. King Devil, a big red fox which haunted the countryside, had run his favorite hound to death. For years Nunn devoted himself to hunting King Devil while his children grew more bitter, his wife Milly more resigned. When impoverished Nunn Ballew sold some of his livestock and paid...
...Readers applauded his and the P-D's insistent courage, and the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the convictions in 1941. When F.D.R. traded 50 overage destroyers to Britain, Coghlan lit into him in a hysterically isolationist editorial (Dictator Roosevelt Commits An Act of War). In 1942, during the scrap drive, Coghlan recommended that "some dark night" somebody steal the three ancient cannons in front of the Capitol at Jefferson City; when somebody did, Governor (now Senator) Forrest Donnell ordered Coghlan's arrest for larceny (he was later acquitted...