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Long famed as a rabid Anglophile, Maurois advocated stronger English-French cooperation for many months previous to the collapse of France, and believes defeat was due in large part to a lack of understanding between the two countries...
...prison cell on the outskirts of Buenos Aires last week marched Enrique P. Oses, editor of the swaggering, German-financed, openly Nazi El Pampero, enjoying a temporary freedom on bail. For months he had trumpeted rabid denunciations of the U. S., of President Roosevelt, of the Havana Conference, of Great Britain with noisy immunity. But last month he offended the Argentine sense of good taste, was whisked off to jail...
...show that small craft of a half-dozen nations, totaling 495,000 h.p., operated last year with cycloidal propellers manufactured in Germany. He believes that German torpedo boats now fighting in the English Channel are equipped with cycloidals, and he wishes they weren't because he is a rabid Hitler-hater. But he observed last week that there is still time for the U. S. to use cycloidal propulsion for airplanes. Two cycloidals mounted on either side of the fuselage with blades projecting laterally would make possible a wingless, almost noiseless plane capable of short landings and take-offs...
...advertisements, home-grown editorials, all shrieking "We Want Willkie!" The delegates couldn't understand it. The big bear-man's face, life, family swiftly became oppressively familiar. Most of the delegates wanted to be let alone, to go about their ancient business in the ancient way. But rabid strangers, unlike any political heelers they had ever seen, surrounded them on the street, gripped their lapels, argued bitterly, demanded (not begged) their vote for this man Willkie. In this urgent, crusading atmosphere the delegates were increasingly uncomfortable. They could no longer read the newspapers with any enjoyment...
Army in 1925 for accusing the high command of incompetence, were dug up by Scripps-Howard Reporter Ruth Finney: "In future wars it will be too late to organize an air force after the contest begins." ¶ In Congress, rabid Isolationist Hamilton Fish stunned the House by voicing a solemn hope for non-partisan harmony in the crisis, a hope that "at least for the time being no effort will be made to criticize the Administration. . . ." ¶The American Red Cross ordered 50 more air-conditioned ambulances, 100 auxiliary hospital trucks, ten field hospitals, quantities of surgical instruments; drove...