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...McCormick share two fierce emo tions : hatred of Franklin Roosevelt, a conviction that New Deal "bungling" in agriculture will cause starvation in the U.S. Last week, in Bertie McCormick's Chicago bailiwick, the two joined in an emotional spree, airing their fears in a joyous catharsis of rich gloom...
Back to 1600. The shadows of the Mexican misadventure and the menacing shadow of Prussia were meeting over France. Bazaine's home-coming took place in that gloom. He was almost unnoticed. Nevertheless, he had absorbed certain lessons that were to become a vital part of French military thought. From the story of Waterloo he had learned that a line of resolute men on the defensive could again & again break an enemy attack. From Mexico he had watched Lee's dashing Confederates lose a war despite their commander's brilliance in attack. He had also learned that...
...gloom in which our last column was written -- remember that baseball affair -- has been partially dispelled. There is now a new competition for chronic gripers. We can all play some more and then gripe about the umpires and anything else which comes to mind. "If so-and-so had only played so-and-so we would have...
When WPB slammed the lid on new piano production last July, the gloom-wrapped industry changed over quickly to making plywood plane parts, deicers. But it kept one eye on the piano market...
...midst of Wagnerian gloom, Hitler spoke his piece, and it was somber. Appealing for German Red Cross funds, the Führer said that the German Eastern Front armies had overcome a winter crisis "that would have broken every other armed force in the world." He spoke of "superhuman hardships'' and the need for sacrifices so that Germany might be "spared the horror...