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...Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln: The War Years to page 553, he read the assembled newspapermen what the Emancipator said to Mary Livermore, the Civil War reformer and social worker who visited him for a word of cheer and comfort after one of the war's bloodiest battles, Antietam...
...perhaps for this purpose that Hitler replaced his scholarly ambassador in Bucharest, Dr. Wilhelm Fabricius, with a brash terrorist, Baron Manfred von Killinger, whose record is one of the bloodiest in Nazidom's unsavory history. Active since 1920 as a plotter, gunman, Putschist and purger, he served briefly as Consul General in San Francisco, scored impressive success in reducing Slovakia to submission. As Gauleiter of Rumania, the Baron could be expected to exhibit those arts of discipline for which he is notorious...
...past the second grade in school. He bummed around his native Chicago for a while, finally got work as a wagon boy for an express company. At 15 he became an organizer for a tough Chicago teamsters' union. That year (1905) the teamsters put on one of the bloodiest general strikes in Chicago's history. Bill Donovan came out of it a proven labor organizer...
...with the average man's horror of most modernistic building is Walter Dorwin Teague,an ace industrial designer who last week published a discursive, philosophical book (Design This Day-Harcourt Brace-$6) on the present and future of design. To Designer Teague the industrial Revolution has been the bloodiest revolution...
...amazed the Russians and the world were planned long before Russia invaded Finland last fall. And the man who planned them-and whom the Finns revere-was the Mannerheim who served for 29 years in the Army of the Tsars and who ruthlessly won in Finland one of the bloodiest civil wars in history...