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...Section 16, who has lauded his beloved Bums ever since McPhail was a pup. Upturned Dodger noses and supercilious smiles will greet the once-inspired shouts of "trow de big bum out; de empire oughtta take gas." National league umpires will have to carry a pocket-sized edition of Funk and Wagnalls into every argument at home plate. The Dodgers' educational standards will thus be lowered to an unheard-of extreme; it will be like throwing a Ted Lyons curve ball to a rookie straight from Andalusia of the Georgia-Florida League. Unless the Dodgers forego this unholy alliance, their...
...Luftwaffe's Colonel General Alexander Löhr, Reich Minister of Economics Walther Funk and German Ambassador in Ankara Franz von Papen had flown to the Balkans to see what they could do. Reports came back that the Balkan nations had far too many troops concentrated on each other's frontiers. And they found other things not to their liking...
...Engineer Hugh J. Casey, Cavalryman Clinton A. Pierce, Infantryman Arnold J. Funk, Coast Artilleryman William F. Marquat, Flyer Harold H. George. For astute staff work Colonel Carl H. Seals was also made a brigadier...
...Russians. Here if anywhere was Britain's chance to knock the Eyeties out of the war. Churchill and his Cabinet, after spouting about a Blenheim and a Waterloo, would very likely stand or fall by what happened. Failure here would put the whole Empire into an awful funk. Even the U.S. might shy back out if Britain came another cropper here. The Imperial General Staff, shaken around on the eve of this attack (see p. 22), would be in a pretty bad stew to find a next move...
...days after Dr. Funk left Rome, Mussolini announced the most drastic housecleaning that Italy's economic administration has ever had. Twenty-two Fascist guilds oversee the whole industrial and agricultural life of II Duce's Corporative State. Last week Mussolini fired or shifted the top executives...