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...sparks feeding inwardly on a spirit of dissatisfaction and antagonism. Franklin Roosevelt may have sensed this the evening he attended the spring Gridiron Club dinner, given by Washington's newshawks. First he was caricatured as Don Quixote exclaiming to Sancho Panza Garner: "Seest thou not yon fortress of privilege, yon castle of finance?" ("Them's windmills. Boss." said Sancho.) Next he was Pharaoh, telling ''Little Joseph" Wallace: "I had a dream last night. There were seven nice fat budgets all printed in black ink and along came seven scrawny budgets all printed...
Meantime, the Dearborn individualist last week decided to withdraw further into his vast fortress of independence. The Akron Beacon Journal revealed that Ford Motor Co. had ordered $1,000,000 worth of tire-making machinery for a new Ford tire plant at the River Rouge works outside Detroit. Moreover, said the Beacon Journal, that order was only "one of many...
With gold worth something over $1,000,000,000 already stocked away in its great new fortress-vault at Fort Knox, Ky. (TIME, Jan. 25), the U. S. Treasury last week announced similar plans for insuring the safety of its silver. Soon the Treasury plans to ask for bids on a building similar to Fort Knox depository, but somewhat larger, that will be built on a four-acre tract near the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, will hold 2,000,000,000 oz. of silver...
...almost daily habit of Ambassador & Mrs. Davies is to walk about two miles from their home in white marble Spasso Palace around the vast, tall-turreted Kremlin Fortress. Embassy offices are in a brand-new Soviet marble building, not in the modernistic style which used to be characteristic of Communist architecture, but an affair of Corinthian columns with acanthus-leaf capitals suggesting the First National Bank in an Ohio or Illinois city. There are not many of these new bourgeois buildings yet in Red Moscow, but they bear out in unmistakably bourgeois architecture the fact that J. Stalin & Co.- although...
...passed on Piatakov, the "sudden death" of Ordzhonikidze was something Moscow correspondents not so much expected as awaited. They were handed one day last week a bulletin in which the Soviet official agency Tass stated that at 5:30 p.m. on the day before, at the high-walled Kremlin Fortress in which live Dictator Stalin and the rest of the Biggest Reds, sudden death had come to the Commissar for Heavy Industry by "paralysis of the heart...