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Princess Stephanie, born Stephanie Richter, is reportedly the daughter of Jewish parents. Many of the Führer's British friends, particularly famed Unity Freeman-Mitford, have protested that a Jewess, however valuable, is no friend for Hitler to have...
...nitrate, iron industries, electricity, railroads (all but the last largely U. S.-owned); 2) creation of a State-owned bank and merchant marine; 3) housing for Chile's underpaid workers. Having thus clarified a world-wide misunderstanding-all based on the meaning of one little word-the newly born Vanguardians heaved a serious sigh and adjourned...
...born in Belgium in 1863, but came to the United States where he graduated from M. I. T., and has lived here ever since. He became a professor of Metallurgy here in 1905. He received many honorary degrees including an Sc. D. from Harvard in 1935, on which occasion President Conant said of him; "Long famous as a founder of the science of metallurgy, a Harvard professor of whose achievements we shall be forever proud...
...heart of the South as it is possible to get-in Oxford, Miss., a county seat of 2,890 people, 62 miles southeast of Memphis. Historically speaking, nothing much has happened to Oxford since the Yankees burned it 75 years ago. It has a courthouse square, which Mississippi-born Artist John McCrady painted in Town Square (see cut). It has its Confederate monument on which a soldier stands stonily at ease. It has its old families and old legends, its tireless political disputes, its pleasant wooden dwellings, nice lawns, and some of the softest Southern accents in the South...
When he tries to land at Baton Rouge, soldiers guarding the levee see his convict uniform, open fire. Out in the current again, the boat whirls downstream. Miles from nowhere, on an old Indian mound crowded with snakes, the baby is born. After six days the convict gets so he thinks, "It ain't nothing but another moccasin," when he steps on a snake...