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...clouds, Pan Am persuaded tough, handsome General Jorge Ubico, Guatemala's Dictator-President, to let it fly in his country, hitherto a TACA demesne. Pan Am immediately formed Aerovias de Guatemala, put big, heavyset, American-born Alfred Denby in charge. Fortune-hunter Denby owns Guatemala's biggest butcher shop, rates high with General Ubico. This month Aerovias, which has been conducting survey flights with sleek Pan Am Douglas DC25, will begin competing with TACA's rebuilt, cratish "Tin Geese" (trimotored Fords...
...first stop was Paris. There the ceremonies were a little shabby, for Herr Hitler's levee was with the butcher's son, Pierre Laval. But the dealings were vast. Herr Hitler knew all about his guest; knew him for a shrewd lawyer-politician who had swung rightward with the years and was out to make a deal for France...
...many years the last great private U. S. art collection has hung on the walls of Lynnewood Hall, a chill, pedimented mansion in Elkins Park, Philadelphia suburb. The collection was begun by Peter Arrell Brown Widener, onetime butcher's boy, who made his pile in Civil War meat contracts and later streetcar franchises. His second and only surviving son, Joseph Early Widener, winnowed P. A. B.'s 700 pictures, made many a swap, bought only the best, until 100 canvases, all good and many masterpieces, glowed like jewels in Lynnewood Hall. The Widener collection was valued as high...
...whether or not we will engage in war under any conditions. If the answer is in the affirmative (and I think no one will claim otherwise), is it not merely simple logic to provide ourselves with the most perfect military mechanism we can devise? To do otherwise is to butcher innocent boys when war does eventuate, as Hitler so clearly points out. . . . We must choose now whether we will appease or fight if necessary, because in the training of an army, should the latter alternative be selected, time is of the essence. I for one am not in favor...
Elihn H. Herman, Wythe M. Bogy, Thomas N. Bridge, Stanley Brooks, William S. Butcher, Dugald C. Burns, Herbert Church, Jr., Richard P. Kleeman, Richard Lehman, Scott B. Lilly, Jr., Alan P. Plfer, John E. Reynolds, Lloyd S. Shapley, William P. Slichier, Sherwin D. Smith, John LeB. Turner, and Andrew D. Wolfe...