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...State of Vichy. The men of Vichy began to split. Marshal Philippe Petain. Chief of State, had just returned from a tour of bombed French cities. Propped up by occasional doses of benzedrine, the old man spoke less of collaboration than of unity and nationalism. But, at invasion showdown, he called upon French men to obey the Nazis. Pierre Laval, hated alike by Petain and by anti-Nazi French men, echoed the Marshal's words: "France must be dignified and disciplined in attitude. . . . We are not in the war." It was not enough. More violent Nazi- philes...
...Morgan, Stanley and Co. to monopolize U.S. railroad financing. This, they complained, not only cost the railroads plenty of cash in higher underwriting fees, but throttled Middle Western underwriters. Eaton and Stuart lost the Pennsy financing to Kuhn, Loeb, but forced the ICC into exhaustive hearings and a showdown on the whole competitive bidding issue...
Socialist Greenwood had just lost a fight to expel Nye Bevan from the Party for a revolt against the topside line. He had even threatened to resign if Bevan were upheld. But on the showdown Greenwood had to eat his threat. Defiant Nye Bevan, a onetime Welsh miner and long a loud voice for Labor's militant left, had won a significant victory...
...reaffirmed last week, 17 of the 74 committee members balked. Led by a layman and World War I veteran, Lawyer Charles C. Parlin, of Englewood, N.J., the dissidents drew up a minority report, placing the Church squarely behind the war, took their report to the Conference floor for a showdown...
...Showdown. Colonel Robertson heard ugly whispers about the sources of Colonel Canella's income. He investigated and turned his findings over to the FBI. When Colonel Canella appeared for arraignment, he hotly denied his guilt, called himself a victim of "personal persecution." He also slugged a newspaper photographer and chased him across one of Santa Ana's busiest streets...