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When the Times eagle was cast in 1891, the paper was just ten years old and Los Angeles was a town of 50,395 inhabitants. By all odds the fieriest spirit among them was Harrison Gray ("Old Walrus") Otis, late lieutenant colonel of the Union Army. In his own words, he nourished "a tremendous and abiding faith in the future of Los Angeles"-and its climate. This bewhiskered turkey-cock boomed the town into a city, made money as it grew, built himself a fine home called "The Bivouac" and mounted his bellicose eagle on a building at First...
There was, as usual, a fine ring of righteousness in the General's words but little enlightenment for the country at large as to one of the fiercest, fieriest backstage fights of the New Deal. All Washington knew that a mighty tussle was in progress over the future of NRA. Newshawks got circumstantial glimpses of the contest?a second-hand piece of gossip here, an angry word by way of confirmation there...
...purpose of boycotting the former, is "impossible of achievement" because in such large enterprises Jewish and non-Jewish interests are so often intermixed. As though he feared Storm Troopers would not believe he spoke for the Party, Dr. Schmitt insisted that his announcement had been approved by that fieriest of Jew-baiters, hot-eyed, club-footed Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels...
Wisconsin. Nothing occurred to impede the foregone gubernatorial election of Philip Fox LaFollette, youngest and fieriest of his tribe...
...While they awaited the book, U. S. newspaper readers reflected that, of all journalists at the Peace Conference, whilom Editor Steed was probably as near the inner machinery as any; that of all temperaments assembled at Versailles, those of Lloyd George and "Tiger" Clemenceau were perhaps the fieriest; that if such a quarrel had come to pass, it must certainly have been hushed up; that of all reputations, Mr. Steed's was a most excellent one for veracity; that, of all times, the present ? with Wilson dead, Lloyd George obscured, Clemenceau retired? was as convenient as any for publishing...