Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winchell telephoned his good friend John Hoover (for whom he withheld the news of Hauptmann's capture for 24 hours) and G-Man Hoover guaranteed Lepke asylum in a Federal jail. Then for two weeks Winchell was treated to a run-around by Lepke and his men. Finally, one...
>FORTUNE'S September survey deflated all 1940 balloons except Franklin Roosevelt's, found that no honest-to-goodness Republican bandwagon exists. Polices were asked first: If you had your choice in 1940, would you choose Mr. Roosevelt or someone else? Answers: 34.9% would choose Mr. Roosevelt, 53.3% would...
>Traditionally Democratic Cleveland, Ohio last week found it must choose as its mayor in the October third primaries one of two Republicans, either incumbent Mayor Harold H. Burton or John O'Donnell of the School Board. Behind this novelty was a pretty piece of Democratic boggling. Two equally powerful...
Stall. But as Grant's men before Petersburg were too stunned, when the great mine went off, to rush Confederate works, Germans did not move. As the week's 168 hours sped by, the explosion still seemed tremendous, but few of its casualties were Polish. Casualties-cherished beliefs...
And with each moment the advantage of shock dwindled. Master of surprise, imaginative, daring, unscrupulous, Adolf Hitler surpassed in dealing in intangibles-in smashing a custom, blowing up his own and another's ideology-and as the week wore on it looked as if intangibles delayed him. Why had...