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...Among them: Colonel Summerall's father, General Charles P. Summerall, 83, retired World War I commander of the 1st Division, Army Chief of Staff from 1926-30, now president of The Citadel...
Three weeks ago something akin t panic spread through Sun Life's Montreal citadel ("Largest office building in th British Empire"). Montreal's financial district in St. James Street buzzed with rumors that the Aliens and allied U.S speculators had gobbled up 35% of Sun Life's stock. Out to Sun Life's Canadian stockholders went frantic telephone pleas from company officers not to sell, to "keep this fine old Canadian company Canadian." At the Dominion Insurance Office's behest, Canadian Finance Minister Douglas Abbott took one step to repel the invaders. He announced last...
...four days the invaders reached Ning-ching, where a Tibetan border regiment defected in what appears to have been the commissars' first tactical triumph. On Oct. 19 the combat troops "annihilated" 4,000 Tibetans at Chamdo, a citadel 400 miles east of Lhasa, Tibet's capital. From Chamdo on, they had no real opposition except from the rugged terrain and rarified air on the "roof of the world." By week's end the One-Eyed Dragon was reported five days' march from the Tibetan capital...
Senator Scott Lucas, loping along confidently in Illinois wooing the downstate farmers, suddenly glanced back and saw his Chicago citadel in danger. Normally, Cook County Boss Jake Arvey could be expected to give him a fine 200,000 Democratic majority in the big city. But now, hanging lumpily on Lucas' political neck, was a bland, white-haired police captain named Daniel A. Gilbert...
...after several years of hard sifting by history. He shook the official guides, went from end to end of the United Kingdom on his own legs and resources, catching impressions. One gloomy theme ran through the whole trip: socialism in Britain is strangling in dividual liberty in the historic citadel of liberty. Many a farmer and small business man told Dos Passos what an intellectual phrased most sharply: "England's dead, quite dead, quite. We're the lost island of the Atlantic, sunk in everlasting ennui, the Scandinavian ennui...