Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evelyn stayed at the Blue Angel for her customary three years, began building a radio name with appearances on the Lanny Ross Show, the Chesterfield Supper Club, the Bourjois Powder Box Theater, et al. Last week, the buildup paying off big, she mused: "I sometimes wonder why I studied singing. I became such a huge success when I stopped using my voice...
Such startling coincidences-or, as some firmly believe, "causes"-have given rise to a new quasi-economic science which smacks of witchcraft, astrology and old-fashioned predestination. Biologists, astronomers, chemists, et al. had already found that much of the growth and movement in their fields seemed to be governed by natural cycles controlled by mysterious agencies. Could the same be true of business and industry? Did economic man have no more control over his fate than the lemmings...
...Harry Truman had staked out for himself when he first entered the White House. But it now revolves around a brand-new operating routine. The old days of government by cronies are gone, and so are most of the cronies (Jake Vardaman, Ed McKim, John Caskie Collet, George Allen, et al.). The President now has a new, tightly knit staff and a new administrative procedure which makes full use of his Cabinet...
Last week he was riding the crest of popularity. For the first time since he entered the White House, he was consistently able to attract strong men to his Administration (General George Marshall, W. Averell Harriman, Lewis Douglas, et al.). No one could accuse him of using ambassadorships to pay off political debts...
Claiming to have been always firmly anti-Nazi, Dr. Kersten is a Finnish citizen who now lives and practices in Sweden. He declares that he treated Himmler (also Ribbentrop, Hess, Ley, et al.) simply to protect his own family. He was also instrumental, he says, in sending thousands of victims of German concentration camps to safety into Switzerland and Sweden. Documents reproduced in his Memoirs, and an introduction by Biographer Konrad (Hitler) Heiden, indicate that his claims are true. So also may be his reports of tall Nazi ambitions. Samples...