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...sudden vast interest in maps, in geography, in the home states of all one's friends, especially California (one realizes the all-pervasive influence of said state's Chamber of Commerce when 94 out of 103 asked for it as a first choice . . . the high susceptibility to each crumb of Scuttlebutt, treasured cherished, passed tenderly from hand to hand . . . "I heard Mr. Ashler say, with may own ears" . . . "I know, but Mr. Hill told...
...crumb popped into Pan Am's mouth: one of the five companies favored was Compañia Nacional Cubana de Aviacion, which Pan Am owns. The other two companies: Expreso Aereo Inter-Americano, S.A., for service between Miami and Havana; and Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM), Miami to Curaçao and Aruba...
...present excitement in Britain over Sir William Beveridge's monumental report on social security. When the war began, Laborites were admitted to a Coalition Cabinet on condition that they refrain from raising "controversial" issues until after the war. Sir William, to put it mildly, has scattered many a cracker-crumb into the couch of Britain's political bedfellows. His ideas have won such widespread support that the Labor Party has decided to fight here and now for Parliamentary enactment of the new proposals...
Returning to post-war Germany, he was persuaded by Grand Admiral (then Captain) Erich Raeder to stick with the Navy-the crumb of a fleet left the Reich by the Versailles Treaty. He finally cast his lot with the Nazi Party solely because of his conviction that the upstart Brown Shirts would break down Versailles restrictions against recreation of his fleet. He gained powerful supporters in the German Inner Circle: Admiral Otto Schniewind, former director of naval education, now Chief of Staff of the German Navy High Command, is his close friend. The Luftwaffe's Hermann Göring...
Harvard won all three doubles encounters. Lyoll and Peabody defeated Leodas and Ehrichs 6-4, 6-1; Wilson and Ellis defeated Persinger and Babcock 6-2, 6-2; and Clarke and Symon won over Crumb and Swartz...