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...blue capes moved Red Cross nurses; the Red Cross ladies fussed with plates and spoons. Near, but tactfully hidden, waited a khaki colored Army ambulance. Men with 22-year-old wounds must not be overexcited, must not overdo-Trailed by uniformed aides strode Eleanor Roosevelt, summery in a long, pale blue dress, a white hat, to meet her guests...
These three long domed Dwight Macdonald, hoarse voiced Frederick W. Dupee, pale-browed George Lovett Kingsland Morris-put out their first post-graduation magazine in 1930: a slim, self-conscious sheaf called Miscellany that lasted one year. Their later vehicle, the Partisan Review, was first published in 1934 as an organ of the John Reed (Leftist writers') Club of New York, among its editors being two literate Leftists named Philip Rahv and William Phillips. Writer Dupee meanwhile drank at the revolutionary fount in Mexico, returned to Manhattan to work for the New Masses. What threw him and Rahv...
Nach Paris. At 5 a.m. next morning a drowsy-voiced night operator summoned the press to a 6 o'clock conference. Not until 8:25 did Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop come in, pale and red-eyed from a sleepless night. His voice husky from strain, he rasped, "England and France at last dropped the mask. The attack on the Ruhr Valley was definitely planned." Then followed the usual tirade of accusation and denouncement. Belgium and The Netherlands had "plotted" against the Reich, had "fostered a German revolution," etc., etc. Long before he had finished, journalists knew that Germany...
...businessmen] illegal solely because its purpose or effect was to raise prices." Justice William Orville Douglas tossed away lack of precedent, held (for a majority of five): "Any combination which tampers with price structures is engaged in an unlawful activity. The [Sherman] Act places all such schemes beyond the pale. . . . Congress has not left with us the determination of whether or not particular price-fixing schemes are wise or unwise, healthy or destructive...
...young man, George Stevens, a pale young Negro, had worked as a porter in an Akron hotel, had got a job in a stove company. His aptitude for mechanics had attracted the attention of an Akron industrial pioneer, Ohio Columbus Barber, founder of the city of Barberton, Ohio, who hired him. Soon he became chief engineer at Barberton's Portage Strawboard Co. Later he moved to Indiana, worked at several plants, migrated to Hartford City, which had long smugly accepted the fact that it had not a single Negro resident...