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...From the crest of gigantic Chickamauga Dam, which backs up the waters of the turbulent Tennessee River eight miles above Chattanooga, President Roosevelt this week made his first major address since he accepted the Democratic nomination for the Third Term. Hatless in the withering sun, he sat in the back seat of an open car that had been run up on a hastily-built slack pine ramp. Sweat poured down the President's face, soaked through his seersucker suit...
...rowing is riding the crest of a success wave. The Varsity has soundly thrashed the men from New Haven for five straight years, and all four Crimson eights--Varsity, Junior Varsity, Freshman and combination--have triumphed at New London for the last three years...
...heart of northern Ontario's summer-resort country a jumble of big, rambling buildings sits on the crest of a rolling, wooded slope which rises from the shores of a blue lake. During World War I it was used as a recuperation camp for Canadian officers. After the war it was remodeled as a swank private sanatorium, which failed during the depression. Two months ago it underwent another metamorphosis. The Canadian Government surrounded it with barbed wire, set up sentry boxes, installed 300 Nazi prisoners...
...Poll forecast the 1936 popular vote within 2%, because New Dealers have long taken President Roosevelt's political invincibility for granted, poll findings made a deeper impression in Washington than elsewhere in the U. S. New Dealers solaced themselves with the belief that Wendell Willkie had reached the crest of his wave, would now decline. The FORTUNE Survey itself pointed out-"A public whose preferences are as fluid as the comparison of these returns indicates may react against the Republican candidate after the first delighted surprise at his nomination has worn off. And Willkie's opportunities to make...
Prime Minister Smuts, his Government riding the crest of popular indignation, recalled that The Netherlands once gave sanctuary to beaten President Kruger of the Transvaal Republic, advised Queen Wilhelmina last week that if Her Majesty or any members of the Dutch Royal Family should come to South Africa the Dominion would "esteem this the greatest honor and privilege in return for the kindness extended to President Kruger...