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...Matsuoka resigned from the Service. Some said he found diplomatic discipline galling to his lone-cat temperament, his American education a liability in a service dominated by Tokyo Imperial University graduates. True to form, he reappeared on a higher rung five months later, as director, later president, of that octopus, the South Manchuria Railway. The South Manchuria Railway was no mere private enterprise; half its money was Government money, its policies were the Government's. The Railway not only controlled some 1,300 kilometers of railroad, but operated steamships, harbors, coal mines, shale-oil plants, ironworks, chemical-fertilizer plants...
Aging noticeably after the German occupation and the closing of the Paris Herald office, the Sparrow nevertheless refused to budge. One evening a Nazi guard stopped him at the gate, told him curfew had long since rung. Said the Sparrow: "Where do you get that stuff?" and kept going. The guard called a Nazi officer. But the officer, too, was an "old pal"-they had met at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. So together he and the Sparrow toured what was left of the old "thirst emporiums...
...marble surroundings of the Federal Reserve Building, Harry Hopkins and his staff of 35 men settled down to spend $7,000.000,000, re-arm the democracies, and stop Hitler. In late 1938, when Hopkins' WPA was wrenched by charges of waste, political corruption and Communism, Franklin Roosevelt had rung the bell, dragged Hopkins to a neutral corner, saved him from an angry Senate. Now, as the bells tolled for whole democracies, Hopkins had been sent again into the fight, armed with the $7,000,000,000 and the complete trust of the President...
...slow show saved by some top-rung acting. Oliva de Haviland proffers a pleasing new approach, abandoning Melanie's sweet-souled idealism for a rougher characterization. Alan Hale as a street-cleaner and wife-wolfer is huge and gives the customers a few hearty giggles. Cagney's successful plodding is beautifully contrasted against the strawberry blonde's hypocritical and disastrous social climbing...
...Elis knocked the Varsity down a rung in league standings, from fourth to fifth place, by hanging a 1364 score over a 1346, and at the same time trounced the Yardlings...