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...igth-Century fighting liberal, so independent that he would not even join the Independent Labor Party. Highlights of his long Parliamentary career include opposition to entrance into the World War and the rallying of a Parliamentary faction to support King Edward VIII in the Wallis Warfield Simpson crisis (". . . an insult to the United States"). Colonel Wedgwood's big heart, like that of his ancestor who backed the American Rebels of 1776, burns for all oppressed peoples, including Spaniards, Czechs and Jews, but he abhors spinelessness. The fighting Colonel last week lit into the Government, but he also lit into...
...hour's run for the industry's continuous mills. But such was the state of the steel industry that the offer was demoralizing. Youngstown Sheet & Tube allegedly nibbled first, offering Ford a $2 a ton cut. He held out, won a reduction twice as big, added insult to injury by splitting the bone he was throwing seven different ways, so that no plant got more than a sniff of business...
...cold and biting, but he never explodes in barrack bluster. A sure way to anger George Marshall is to ask him to change his mind when he has once made it up. No fretter, he can be so blunt as to offend strangers who mistake his abrupt decisiveness for insult. Yet his colleagues account him a warm and friendly fellow...
...German language scholarship. He said he knew of no Nazi-subsidized professorship in the U. S. but that he had sent German books as prizes to students of German in some 25 Southern universities. Tampa's President Sherman, standing by his story, snorted: "Why would I wish to insult him? He admits that I did insult him and I admit that I insulted him all I was able...
...article brought an immediate call at the Foreign Office from German Minister Prinz Viktor zu Wied, who called it a gross insult on the person of the Field Marshal. The author of that gross insult, it turned out, was none other than the Knight of the Silver Shield-Nils Silfver sköld, brother-in-law of Field Marshal Göring...