Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ended the blustery, earnest career of the civilian chief of history's greatest navy. It was a career compounded in equal parts of Horatio Alger and Teddy Roosevelt. The Alger element marked the rise of a paper boy to waiting on tables at Alma College, to $150,000-a-year general manager of 27 Hearst newspapers in 1928, and then to publisher-owner of the huge (412,148 circ.) Chicago Daily News in 1931. The Rooseveltian half of his life began in the Spanish-American War, when young Knox got a bullet hole through his hat and a "Bully...
...reports indicate that Kesselring's 20 divisions in Italy are getting only 170 tons of supplies per day per division. While this is plenty during a lull, the Germans would need at least 200 tons per day per division if an all-out Allied blow forced them to rise up and fight. Still needed: the all-out Allied push, a seeming impossibility now, when reserves are few on the Italian front.* But if what Uncle Joe's pilots reported was true, if the German was being slowly bled to death, things must still be different...
...picture's theme is the rise of Na tional Socialism from the gutter to the June 1934 Blood Purge. The film is a sober attempt to screen history. It is forceful as propaganda, sharp as cartooning, interesting as journalism, sometimes exciting as cinema. But it is inadequate to its subject. In part this failure is due to the attempt to pack 16 of the most crowded, crucial, sinister years of modern German history into 101 minutes of lively cinema. In part it is due to the fact that Nazi characters and motives are simplified to the point of absurdity...
...front pages of Chicago's newspapers almost ignored the war. They had more exciting news. Headlines blazoned accounts of kidnapping and murder. Accompanying stories hinted at the rise of a new gangland mob: the "wise boys" said that the "Syndicate," or the "Outfit"-presumably the remnants of the old Capone gang-was being muscled out. Black-market traffic in liquor* and even in cheese was involved; so was the overlordship of gambling, bawdyhouses and numerous other rackets. Then, to top it off, to give the stories the real burnt-powder smell of the turbulent '20s, the name...
...several legal charges and trials (for mayhem and dope peddling). He has been the subject of a movie (False Faces) in which a patient shoots a doctor after losing a suit for malpractice. Last month the Philadelphia Record began a series of articles on Quack Schireson's rise to Spruce Street and fortune. Last fortnight Pennsylvania's State Board of Medical Licensure had been roweled into an investigation which may cost Schireson his license...