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...authority on the problems of Puerto Rico, which he believes the U.S. has shamefully mismanaged, Tugwell is well-liked by Puerto Ricans. In the university chancellorship (salary: $15,000), they gave him the biggest job they had to offer. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico's Governor Guy J. Swope had resigned, and Washington dopesters named Tugwell as his probable successor. Should Tugwell be appointed Governor, he could serve in that office without pay, take a leave of absence from his chancellorship with pay, and thus, though a U.S.-appointed Governor, remain an employe of the Puerto Ricans...
Gregor, less astute, stayed in the Party. In 1933 he was within an ace of the Chancellorship; in 1934 he was murdered. Otto, from 1930 on, set to work organizing his Black Front. The top fourth stayed aboveground. The rest took places high & low in every Party except the Communist, and bored from within. When Hitler came into power the whole Black Front went underground or, by thousands, into concentration camps. Otto, melodramatically helped by various Black-Fronters, fled the country, started his years of writing and smuggling through revolutionary flimsies and stickers. In Vienna, in Prague, in Switzerland...
...John Simon was removed from active participation in this Government and given Britain's highest judicial post, the Lord Chancellorship, and made a peer...
...with Adolf Hitler eying the Chancellorship, Benno Elkan correctly guessed that Germany would soon be an unhealthy place for him. He packed his trunks and a few of his more portable sculptures and fled across the Swiss border. One thing he took with him was a huge (6 ft. high, 7 ft. wide), bronze candelabrum, bristling with Biblical figures. Nazi authorities proclaimed him a degenerate artist whose real Jewish name was L. Kahn, set about systematically confiscating and destroying all of his statues they could lay hammers...
...perhaps the best man who ever lived, voluntarily submitted to death at the hands of an imperfect government rather than save his life by breaking the laws which had been established by consent." Called the same day to the Chancellorship of the Fascist-threatened Republic, he draws up a sound economic program, a speech to men of good will...