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...ambassador, Dr. Westrick had one strike on him before he arrived. His former law partner in Berlin was none other than famed Dr. Heinrich Albert, who served here during World War I as sidekick of Provocateur Franz von Papen until his brief case, loaded with incriminating evidence, was stolen from him by another spy on New York's Sixth Avenue Elevated, and turned over to Government and press. After the war. Dr. Albert returned to Berlin, was briefly in the Reich Chancellery (1920) and later Minister of the Treasury, lived down his memorable Merkle. He built up a good...
...wrote four textbooks on defensive tactics, one for each season of the year. He hounded the Government into increasing each year the 12% of its budget it originally appropriated for the military. He organized the Civic Guard, 100,000 strong, as a permanent reserve force. In 1931 his old sidekick, Per Svinhufvud, then President, made him President of the Council of Defense. Two years later he became Finland's only Field Marshal. Mannerheim threatened to wash his hands of the whole business of defense unless the Government established conscription...
...Alliars." After a series of Chaplinesque trench experiences, Charlie returns home to Ptomania's capital Ptom, soon finds everything being run by a little cock-of-the-walk named Hinkle. When "Furor" Hinkle appears, all cry Hail and even dachshunds must raise their legs. Hinkle's sidekick is Dictator Mussemup of Ostrich, an egomaniac who stops traffic when he wants to tell a dirty joke...
...German machinery, a 350-mile pipeline across the Gran Chaco, and an oil refinery in Paraguay, Bolivia planned to ship some $15,000,000 of goods, principally petroleum, to oil-hungry Nazis. The man who made the announcement was not mournful Dictator Busch, but his tough, roving-eyed sidekick and Minister of Mines and Petroleum, Dionisio Foianini...
Shortly afterward Albert Chaperau ceased to be amused. He was twice more indicted along with Comedian George Burns (sidekick of Gracie Allen) for smuggling $4,885 worth of diamond bracelets and a ring. To make matters worse, jolly George Burns admitted making payments to Chaperau, pleaded guilty to nine counts, laid himself open to a maximum sentence of 18 years in prison and a $45,000 fine...