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...week became Advisor on Foreign Publicity and was succeeded by Sir Findlater Stewart) and his Chief Censor. Admiral Cecil Vivian Usborne, heard them patiently, anxious to satisfy the men on whose work depends the U. S. public's opinion of Britain's war. They agreed to appoint more censors, keep them on duty 24 hours a day. Another proposal-that radio broadcasts be delayed until newsmen had time to file their stories-was held over for consideration...
...soldier of the German Reich; just as I fought in the last war, so I will fight now. I shall not take off this uniform until we have achieved victory. . . . However, if something should happen to me; I want the German people to know that I have appointed Field Marshal Göring to become my successor. If something should happen to Field Marshal Göring, my deputy Rudolf Hess, will take his place; and if something should happen to Hess, a senate which I will soon appoint, will elect his successor, the man most worthy to succeed...
Last week kindly, greying Commissioner George Lyndon Carpenter, 67, Australian-born head of the Army's work in Canada, whom Bramwell Booth demoted a year before he was deposed, was elected the Army's fifth General. No autocrat, General Carpenter promised to appoint a council of advisers. Said he: "If I ever get to the stage of refusing to listen to advice I hope the Army will ask me to retire-and will see to it that...
...Tammany Boss Frank V. Kelly of Brooklyn succeeded in getting Franklin Roosevelt to appoint his friend Harold M. Kennedy U. S. Attorney for New York City's Eastern district, instead of David Schenker, candidate of Mayor LaGuardia and Thomas ("Uncorkable") Corcoran. Interpretation: after his talk last fortnight with Mr. Farley, Mr. Roosevelt decided to appease local bosses; in this instance, abandoned the Corcoran plan to encircle Republican County Attorney Tom Dewey with brilliant New Deal prosecutors and prosecutions. Exaggeration (on the radio by Son Elliott Roosevelt): "Brooklyn is the key to the 1940 election...
Next move of stubborn Julius Heil was to get a bill introduced into the Wisconsin Senate to abolish the university's 14-man Board of Regents, replace it with a nine-man board, which the Governor would appoint. The Milwaukee Post reported that Governor Heil had said to a Senator: "If we can pass this regents bill, Brother Dykstra can look around for another job." The Senate did pass the bill, sent it to the Assembly. Last week the Assembly passed it, sent it back to the Senate with a minor amendment, which was expected to be quickly accepted...