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The young Shah faced more disturbing changes at home. Iran's tribesmen, whose tradition leans as much to polite banditry as it does to husbandry, knew that Reza's Army had been captured and his tiny Navy sunk. The Lure, the Tangistani, the Bakhtiaris the Kamseh and the...
New Adviser To reduce delay and remove confusion around his own desk, Franklin Roosevelt last week appointed short, stumpy Isador Lubin, 44, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to tell him what is what among figures. There will be plenty of work for Lubin. Today nearly every visitor to...
But one rigid fact about Empire was Britain's greatest misfortune last week. The structure of Empire leans on geographic strong points. Knock down the buttress of Singapore, and the whole eastern wall of Empire falls. Knock out the Suez Canal, and British power in all the countries bordering...
German F, by contrast, leans over backward to avoid touching on present-day Germany. It sticks closely to the cultural and political history of Germany in the "good old days" of the minnesingers, Albrecht Durer, Frederick the Great, and perhaps Bismarck. (The German Club does the same thing, of course...
Hague (as Tobey's son, Charles Jr., leans over to whisper in his father's ear): "Tee hee! Look at Willie whistling into his ear."