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Last week the men of Vichy gave the impression that they were readier to crumble than to conquer. The querulous, totalitarian old figurehead, Marshal Petain, quavered in a letter to President Roosevelt: "It is with stupor and sadness that I learned tonight of the aggression of your troops. ... It is you [who] have taken such a cruel initiative...
...that was most immediately useful to a rural civilization. The work of men's hands became "a common language of hand and eye," with marked divergences of idiom-the New Englander's "downright pleasure in stripped forms and beautifully finished plain surfaces," the more complex art of figurehead carving, the decorative designs of the Pennsylvania Germans which (derived from the manuscript paintings of medieval monasteries) gave expression to "all the great ceremonial relationships...
Died. Sidi Ahmed II, 80, Bey of Tunis; in Tunis. An elegant, round little man, bearded, pince-nez'd, for 13 years he was a figurehead ruler of the French protectorate, enjoyed a peaceful "reign" of cooperation with the French, amassed a full treasury, an enviable harem...
...last he had labored for his beloved Poland. Poland's Premier after World War I, he was now the figurehead President of its parliament in exile. On his 80th birthday, last November, he arrived in the U.S. from his villa in Switzerland. Since then, Paderewski spent himself making public appeals for money for starving Poles. Last week, ill of a cold, against his doctor's orders he made one more appearance in New Jersey. As a result he contracted pneumonia and two days later, in his Manhattan hotel, he died. At the suggestion of President Roosevelt, he will...
Last week the New Dealer plan appeared to be well under way. Around OPM was fear and gloom; production was beginning; but politics was being produced faster than ordnance (see p. 14). OPMites could see a nightmare vision of a day when Knudsen would be merely a wandering figurehead of good will, visiting factories and making Rotary luncheon talks; when Sidney Hillman would be a memo-writing figurehead, representing labor conciliation...