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Devil into Savior. A more spectacular example of Communist organizing technique is the ancient town of Albi in southwestern France. For centuries the people of Albi have blown fine glassware. To them and their peasant neighbors a year ago a Communist was no more welcome than the Devil himself. But last winter Albi's glass furnaces were cold. The local party unit explained the situation to HQ in Paris. Thorez in person cajoled his Pas-de-Calais miners into producing extra coal for little Albi. It was Tammany Hall with freight trains instead of Christmas baskets, and, like Tammany...
Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo got on the mark for another senatorial filibuster (30 days if necessary), visualized himself as the savior of $250 million in public funds by killing a freight-rate bill. A succeeding vision: a bigger & better Capitol to be built with the $250 million. He was "ashamed," he said, of the present "old, dilapidated, dirty Capitol," insisted that Cuba's was better and that the county courthouse back home in Mississippi had Washington's beat for comfort and convenience...
...officers who had petitioned for a return to constitutionality (and had consequently been "retired"), a Perón henchman had given the official line: "God has elected one man to save the Republic. This man has already saved the Republic several times and will also be the savior of Latin America. This man, elected by God, is Juan Domingo...
General Douglas MacArthur got an honorary Doctor of Laws from Manila's University of Santo Tomas, whose rector acclaimed him "greater than Alexander the Great or Napoleon, man of destiny and savior of Christian civilization...
Last week in San Antonio the Lone Star flag drooped at half-staff above the weathered walls of the Alamo. In impressive state in the Alamo's chapel lay the body of its savior. Death (of a cerebral hemorrhage), as it must to all empresses, had come to Texas' Clara Driscoll...