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...Syrian delegate the best of health. I beg his pardon for disturbing him. I want him to hear me. I hope he does hear me. I do not know what measures will have to be taken in order to make sure that he will hear me . . ." El Khouri finally woke up. What Vishinsky had wanted him to hear was hardly worth...
...readers will share Author Matthiessen's sense of the abominations "behind the golden curtain" of the U.S.; more (conceivably including Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina) will find it ludicrous that an American can write: "I admit that my first night home [in Boston's Louisburg Square] I woke up in a sudden sweat of fear ... I was back in a very uncertain battle." Christian, Socialist, non-Marxist Professor Matthiessen's idea of certainty: "It [Soviet Russia] knows what it wants, and brutalized as much of its practice may have been, it still points toward a goal that gives...
Rayon & Heir. It was obvious that Detroit's motor industry, biggest U.S. steel consumer, could use a mill of its own. But it had none until Humphrey put together Great Lakes Steel, later merged it into National Steel Corp. (27% Hanna-controlled). Long before the industry itself woke up to the fact, Humphrey discovered that Cleveland's Industrial Rayon Corp. was revolutionizing the rayon industry by a continuous spinning process; Hanna bought control (17%). In 1945 he merged some of Hanna's coal interests into the mammoth new Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. (57% Hanna), and became boss...
...election night in 1916, Charles Evans Hughes went to bed thinking that he had been elected President of the U.S. He woke to find that he was wrong; victory vanished as the returns came in from California. He accepted his defeat philosophically. He was a judicial man who, someone said, looked "like a Victorian child's image of Almighty God." And history had a judicial role cut out for him. He lived out a public career as a tidier-up of disorder, an impeccable caretaker of constitutionality...
Only then did the fun begin. An excited crowd gathered before the house and grew by the minute. Half an hour after the polls closed, some of Duplessis' jubilant admirers barged in, woke him, told him that his personal election had been conceded. Said Duplessis: "What did you expect? The trouble with you is that you lack faith...