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...there are reports in high circles that he wants no new territories except at points needed to make Russia impregnable against invasion. There is also a story in high places that, in keeping with the "tough-guy" tradition, credits Stalin with one other desire: permission from his allies to raze Berlin, as a lesson in psychology to the Germans and as a burnt offering to his own heroic people...
Jones, accused of being a bottleneck, needed an expediter and got a good one. Expansion-minded Clare Francis had long preached more production for the U.S., practiced it at General Foods. Back in 1935 he said: "We need to raze thousands of antiquated factories . . . rebuild, modernize." Now that the U.S. is rebuilding, Clare Francis' job is to see that nothing delays the job. Quartered near Jones's office in Washington, he no longer has time for the winter vacations he could take in his favorite Honolulu when he was preaching...
...spokesman in Berlin officially denied that the German Government plans to raze Belgrade or to exterminate the population. But a German military proclamation issued in Serbia declared: If German soldiers are fired on from any town, the town will be destroyed by fire, the male population will be taken prisoner, every second man will be shot and his property will be forfeited to the German Army...
...became convinced that the New Deal was a gigantic political scheme to raze U. S. business to a dead level and debase the citizenry into a mass of ballot-casting serfs. In this conviction he is deadly serious. He regards the New Dealers as brigands & thugs, intent on robbing U. S. voters of their precious heritage of independence, on stifling free enterprise -a band of evil men masquerading as humanitarians. If by some evil chance Roosevelt should be re-elected in 1940, it will mean, he thinks, the end of the road, the death of the American way. When...
...more remarkable since the Exposition's attendance was just reaching new highs for the year. But Exposition officials, foreseeing November rains, feared a late-fall attendance drop, decided there would be more profit in packing two months' business into one. Last week they were getting ready to raze the topless towers of Treasure Island, to liquidate the Exposition that does not have to run a second year to save its face or its bondholders (of whom it has none...