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...showed boldness as well as subtlety in trying to find economic solutions to the tangles that forced Europe toward war. He backed the economic rationalist, Paul Van Zeeland, as Belgian Premier as long as he could, and tried to realize free trade in the Oslo Group of small Northwestern nations. He thought economic collaboration would lead to other, higher ground. Said he: "Give humanity . . . not words, but proofs that the Western countries have, above their more immediate problems of material nature, a spiritual force emanating from the spirit of brotherhood...
Even more impressive than the art were the spectacular views from Maryhill's windows of eastern Oregon, the Columbia gorge, Mount Hood and the Cascade Mountains. One hundred miles from Portland, Ore., Roadbuilder Hill's castle can be approached only over the fine winding Northwestern highways he himself helped construct, is probably the world's most isolated art museum...
...abandonment by all Allied forces of three-fifths of the land and six-sevenths of the people they had only a fortnight before gone to save. What Mr. Chamberlain did not say was that from the Allies' other main beachhead, Namsos, north of Trondheim, the balance of the Northwestern Expeditionary Force fled Norway that same day and night. The Allies had intended to pinch Trondheim from north and south. With the south prong of the pincers demolished, to press with the north prong would have been only a waste of men and munitions...
Cold comfort next day, when it was learned that the Northwestern Expeditionary Force had pulled out of Namsos as well as Åndalsnes, were Chamberlain's assurances that "although in the face of overwhelming difficulties in the situation, it has not been possible to effect the capture of the town [Trondheim], I am satisfied that the balance of the advantage up to the present lies with the Allied forces...
...College. At 15, big and husky as a man, he quit school to roam the Southwest as ranch hand, camp cook, mule skinner, tattoo artist. He was a crack rider with the 15th Cavalry at Fort Sill, Okla. Mustered out, he married, smashed baggage at Chicago's old Northwestern railroad station, got a broken nose as a professional prize fighter, finally settled down as a machinist's assistant in the shops of Alliance (Ohio) Machine Co. His foreman at Alliance, the late Charles T. Williams (no relation), became the model of Bull of the Woods. Meanwhile, Jim Williams...