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...fell into SEC's bailiwick, called over Jerome Frank, who took along his stock-market regulator, Ganson Purcell, and his investment trust muckraker and regulator, cigar-rotating, handball-playing David Schenker. When Quinn laid the idea on the table, Frank quickly recognized it as one of his fondest...
...below the surface, far from the biggest bomb's reach, the occupants stepped or were carried out. They were expectant mothers, taking shelter from R. A. F. raids in Adolf Hitler's personal maternity ward. These chambers where potential life could defy potential death were planned with fondest care by the Führer. They consisted of large, air-conditioned dormitories with neat rows of white beds; electric kitchens; an operating room with the latest obstetrical equipment. Night and day nurses of the Nazi Welfare Organization stood by under the orders of five physicians. Before birth occurred, Berlin...
...King Carol moved with alacrity. While he was reported preparing to leave the Entente his subjects pumped 3,000 tank cars full of gasoline and sent them hurrying to Germany; pleaded with Rome and Berlin for advice on the Russian note. All this added up to Britain's fondest hope: that somewhere along that long electrified line between German and Russian spheres there might soon be a short circuit, then a fire...
...lose hope. The mistakes that were made in the past cannot be rectified. We can only look back on Versailles, the Harding Administration, Austria, Munich, and above all Spain. We now know that Hoare, Leval, Chamberlain, and the Vatican were wrong, terribly wrong. We can only say that the fondest hopes of Senator Borah are now fulfilled; America is isolated...
...smile, every sidelong glance, every toss of her head, every movement of her hands makes the supporting cast sink further and further into a vague, formless background. But as for you, Mr. Goldwyn, by decking out Bob T. in that new trick mustache, you've shattered one of our fondest illusions...