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Calling Chancellor Hitler a man bent on achieving Germany's destiny "by fire and sword," calling Japan "the darkest storm cloud on the political horizon," Comrade Litvinoff said flatly: "I disagree with President Roosevelt when he says that only 8% of the people in the world want war. Those 8% are the people in power in certain countries. . . . Between Germany and Japan exists a common spirituality-a desire to fight...
Another circumstance doubled Publisher Howard's jubilation. The day of Fusion's victory was the 15th anniversary of the darkest hour of Publisher Howard's newspaper career when, as the bright-eyed, electric little president of the United Press, he got blamed for one of journalism's historic blunders: announcement of the "False Armistice...
...coast to coast. Andrew John Volstead, author of that Act, had just lost his $4,500 per year job as counsel to the Prohibition administration at St. Paul. Nevertheless, the scores & scores of white-clad, earnest ladies of the W. C. T. U. remained undaunted in Prohibition's darkest hour in a decade...
...During the darkest hour of China's desperate defense," cried Chinese Banker T. V. Soong, speaking for the Chinese Government, "Robert Short, a friend from a distant land, flew out-of the sky and gave his life. . . . To the Chinese people this act of courage and sacrifice was electrifying." Posthumously Hero Short was created a Chinese Colonel...
Candidate Gustave Winter, darkest of dark horses, could fairly be said to have prevented President von Hindenburg's reelection. His platform was that some payment or restitution should be made to holders of "worthless" German paper mark banknotes of 1,000-mark denominations or larger...