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White Knight. Isolationist Congressmen, after Lend-Lease went through over their protests, stormed out of the Capital to tour the country for the isolationist cause. Chief among them were Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who hates the President, dreams of riding into the White House on the crest of a post-war isolationist wave; Senator Gerald P. Nye, one of the most detested and distrusted men in the Senate; Representative Hamilton Fish, demagogic, erratic, unstable, who also dreams of being President some...
Disquiet in Oslo reached a crest when 2,000 workers in the Akers shipbuilding yards went on strike. They resented Nazi plundering of milk supplies, "depriving mothers and babies" so that German soldiers in Finland could have their pint...
...crest of the final hill, the coolie could see the entire Ichang Front. All around him were the Chinese strong points: machine-gun posts supported by trenched rifle pits. Farther down were lines of trenches skillfully disguised by green branches, banks of sod, transplanted wheat; odoriferous dugouts in which odoriferous soldiers huddled 24 hours a day; then bamboo and wooden barricades and mine traps; and finally 200 yards of no man's land. Beyond were the Japanese lines-barbed wire, solidly barricaded trenches, concrete emplacements. The whole scene was intimately still-so still that the coolie could hear bees...
...with William Hobart Weintraub of a little clothing-trade journal modeled after Printers' Ink. But in 1931 they named it Apparel Arts and revamped it in a slick imitation of the new magazine FORTUNE. Their success was striking-so striking that within six years Publisher Smart, on the crest of the wave, was asking, "Why didn't somebody tell me about this publishing game before? It's a cinch...
...railway car, resting on a siding under the shadow of a Balkan mountain on whose crest anti-aircraft units kept constant vigil, was set as usual for Adolf Hitler's morning conference with his advisers. Assembled in the car were all the biggest of the bigs: Göoring, Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Brauchitsch, Raeder, Himmler, Hess (see cut). They were gathered together to congratulate Adolf Hitler on his 52nd birthday...