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...gamble of the first magnitude ... an amazing act of resolution for a man of von Hindenburg's great age to have staked all in making von Papen?an untried man???dictator just to keep Hitler from power...
...before the scheduled death of Prisoner Jones, Governor Andy Kent begins to feel himself cracking up. "If only the victim had been a less decent sort. If only he had cursed?or sworn? or fought. . . . But how can you dig a grave for such a man???you enter his cell at midnight, to make sure the officers who keep him from suicide are not sleeping?-you see him sobbing all over, like a child." When Governor Kent passes the open grave, sees the quicklime piled beside it, his conscience rises with his gorge; rather than carry...
Since every important Soviet step is supposed to be taken in a direction pointed out by Lenin, cautious Stalin is rebuking the Communists and trade unionists of Nizhnii Novgorod, reminded them that one of Lenin's slogans was: "Absolute obedience to the will of one man???namely the Soviet manager?during working hours!" Motor car production, the Dictator ordered, must be up to schedule within six months...
...railroads, where the division between operating and financial management is sharp, the president is almost always an oldtime railroad man???viz. Pelley, Baldwin, Williamson, Budd. Storey. Rail chairmen are usually bankers or lawyers. Robert S. Lovett of the U.P. was its counsel for five years. Financier Harold Stirling Vanderbilt heads the C. & N. W. as chairman, just as Financier Arthur Curtiss James heads Western Pacific...
...Gibson's sentence was a particularly sincere effort to explain to the Conference why the U. S. does not propose to reduce the U. S. Army by a single man???the reason being that President Hoover honestly considers the U. S. Army a purely defensive and minimum force no matter how many Mexicans were defensively shot by Honest General Pershing & Army...