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...Rosenberg, The philosophic basis of the Nazi campaign has been firmly laid by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, arrogant right-hand idea-man to the Realmleader. In his The Myth of the Twentieth Century he laughs the Old Testament out of court by describing its most famed characters as "pimps and cattle-dealers." Jesus he takes seriously but concludes...
...Olds could not bring himself to deny flatly any & all advances, declaring: "We have listened to what they have to say but have promised nothing." Lastly, a shift in the Cord personnel diverted no attention from the goings-on. Auburn's President W. Hubert Beal resigned to become right-hand man to Lucius Bass Manning, who is right-hand man to Errett Lobban Cord. To become active head of Auburn, Mr. Manning, now in complete charge of Cord affairs, picked not a Cord subordinate but a Pierce-Arrow vice president in charge of sales, Roy Henry Faulkner. True, the shift...
Affably Secretary Wallace's handsome right-hand man presented himself, but the time he spent upon the stand was hardly comfortable. His experience as a dirt farmer consisted chiefly of having managed his father's apple, peach, plum, cherry and pear farm during summer vacations from college. When Senator Byrd began to question him about his radical beliefs, he twisted and dodged. Yet he was saved from any real embarrassment by the conduct of the hearing. A partisan crowd filling the room applauded, yelled, booed, shouted "We want Tugwell!" and "Hurrah for Byrd!" The Senators were no more...
Officials at University Hall yesterday could give no inkling as to whether the gift of $1000 by Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl '09, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man and bone of contention among members of his class, for the establishment of a scholarship, would be accepted by the Corporation when it meets on Monday...
Brisk Bob Hutchins did not leave his brilliant position as right-hand of Yale's President James Rowland Angell* and go to Chicago just to be feted as a boy wonder. He went to lead the way out of that mediocrity which critics have found to be the chief characteristic of U. S. "higher education." His reforms were radical. But they had barely begun when Depression came to smite down the income of all universities...