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Farm to Factory. Four months ago the site of the Detroit Tank Arsenal was a farm, turning brown and sere under a hazy autumn sun. During the summer Big Bill Knudsen had called bulky K. T. Keller, president of Chrysler Corp., and asked him, as one motormaker to another: Could Chrysler build the Army a medium tank? "K. T." said, sure. Could he see one to get an idea what it was like...
When Authoress Helen Keller made her annual shopping trip to the Manhattan Christmas sale of articles made by the blind, she received from the hands of Abraham Kreisworth, blind and deaf like herself, a hand-hammered copper tray which he had made especially for her. Miss Keller's purchases showed a partiality for blue, which "represents peace." and yellow, "symbol of sunshine...
...General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff and a handful of moth-eaten followers, including Adolf Hitler, marched out of the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich and tried to take the Town Hall. Since the National Socialist Party came to power, Nov. 8, Beer Hall Putsch's Eve, has been both a sentimental and a political occasion. Last year, just after Hitler had harangued his old comrades, a time bomb exploded in Bürgerbräu Keller, killing seven unimportant people, injuring 63, and Germany used the incident to fan hatred of Britain. This year there...
...Adolf Hitler had not been so foolhardy as to risk his skin near the spot where he barely saved it last year. The Bürgerbräu Keller had not been repaired and the meeting took place in the Löwenbräu Keller, more than a mile away, where Hitler addressed his henchmen in his most boastful speech to date. In the field-grey uniform of Supreme Field Lord, little Adolf Hitler roared...
...Sumner's most comprehensive work, The Science of Society, were unfinished when he died. (He collapsed in Manhattan where, shaky and scant of breath, he had indomitably proceeded to a scientific meeting.) The Science of Society was completed by Sumner's disciple and colleague, Albert Galloway Keller, now a Yale patriarch himself. Sumner left Keller 52 huge drawers and boxes crammed with 156,000 pages of notes. Sumner had his own filing system, using red cards for references to be consulted immediately, green for his own comments. All bore his unique abbreviations, a swastika for "superstition," two dice...