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Last week "Mitch" Hepburn had decided to jerk himself up by mighty tugs at the provincial bootstraps of Ontario to the Premiership of all Canada. As a build-up for this, the Premier had deliberately provoked a provincial election which he need never have to fight and was hell-bent to win it Oct. 6. With chances heavily favoring "Mitch," last week Canadian wiseacres agreed that a victory for Liberal Premier Hepburn must severely shake the position and prestige of Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Although both are still nominally Liberals, Hepburn and King have broken...
...become a lofty pinnacle. With blaring bands, solemn chanting, clockwork goose-stepping and dramatic searchlight and spotlight work, Adolf Hitler was made to appear more than ever what in fact he is-the Teuton Messiah. He had a Message this year bolder than ever before. In the final build-up of tense emotion, 400 new German heavy bombers and fighting aircraft of all sorts literally darkened the sky above Nürnberg, made windows rattle with the bellow of their motors and brought gulps to German throats. Then, with every radio station in the Fatherland broadcasting his words, with every...
Assuming that the Crown's masterly build-up of circumstantial evidence revealed the facts, what happened last September was as follows...
...fraternal buttons and colored caps, the members of the Co-operative Clubs of Kansas City gave President Frederick Arnold Middlebush of University of Missouri a rousing build-up as guest speaker by singing Sweet Adeline. Guest Speaker Middlebush fidgeted, rose, exploded: "That song arouses no sentiment in me. When I was elected to the presidency of the University of Missouri a few months ago I was forced to give up my quiet home on the outskirts of Columbia and move down on the campus. Every Saturday night since then I have heard the last passing Sweet Adeline never earlier than...
...Stanford, was assigned to Associated Press's London bureau in 1910, he should soon make his way to the Hoovers' "Red House." For four years the friendship of the two expatriates ripened in private. Then came the War and the beginning of the astute and spectacular publicity build-up which ended by making Herbert Hoover a World Name and 31st President of the U. S. The publicity artist who sketched the solid outlines of the Hoover portrait which the world came to know was Ben S. Allen...