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...first rumor to get around was that Wendell Willkie was just a super-hawker who had sold the Republican Convention a bill of goods. Last week, spreading rapidly through professional ranks was the belief that maybe Willkie was only a fatter, louder Alf Landon. When was he going to settle down and tend to his muttons-to winning an election for the Republican Party? Groaning Republicans saw Franklin Roosevelt, looking as insouciant as a gambler with a sure thing, planted before a backdrop of big guns, while Vice-Presidential Candidate Wallace anointed him the only true St. George. In Washington...
Wealthier grew the Blausteins, fatter grew Pan Am. Pan Am acquired famed Lago Petroleum on Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo, built the great Aruba island refinery in the Dutch West Indies. For 1932, Amoco and subsidiaries turned in a net profit of $4,149,200, up 1,075% from the year the Pan Am deal was made. But meanwhile Louis Blaustein awakened one morning to find his worst fears confirmed: Standard of Indiana, after quietly buying up Pan Am stock, was in control of the production and refining end of his business...
Chapter 4: Swiss Tryst. Hanging around in Switzerland, meanwhile, waiting to greet the Tool of the Plot, was a 42-year-old man, fatter now than he was in the days when he was one of Adolf Hitler's stanchest standbys, a man so severely wounded in 1914-18 that he must still lead an ascetic life-Dr. Otto Strasser, head of the Black Front, sworn to demolish Hitler. He had obviously planned the bombing...
...grew older she grew fatter, even more conscientious. She gave up hunting and riding, took to the bicycle. She made it a daily rule to rise at 6 a.m., usually beginning her royal chores with an hour's work in the spacious garden at the back of the Palace. Nowadays, once a week the Queen receives her Ministers, and woe be to him who does not know his subject well. The Queen has been so long at her job that she can ask the most difficult questions; when a Minister cannot answer them he is told to study...
Last December 31, Cartoonist Kirby's New Year's cartoon appeared in the World-Telegram crudely redrawn, his 1939 baby made fatter and healthier than Kirby had meant him to be. Cartoonist Kirby walked out of the office, and for a month no Kirby cartoon appeared. Roy Howard talked him into going back to work, promised that his cartoons would not be mutilated again. Kirby stayed on, missing his friends, of whom only a sulking Broun was left...