Word: schroeders
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...Calais, the thunder of bombardment died and white flags fluttered in a short truce. Beside a demolished bridge eight miles from the town's center the British general commanding the Canadian besiegers waited to confer with the Calais commander, a Colonel Schroeder...
...German colonel, apparently assigned just before the siege to hold Calais as long as possible, soon turned up with his staff. They were smartly uniformed, but one officer had a wooden leg, another only one arm. Colonel Schroeder stiffly saluted his adversary. Said he, referring to the anomaly of a truce: "This is like something out of Alice in Wonderland...
...State capital at Springfield one day went Illinois's G.O.P. National Committeeman Werner W. Schroeder and Cook County G.O.P. Chairman John T. Dempsey. From early afternoon until midnight they conferred with ambitious Governor Dwight H. Green in the old, rambling Governor's mansion. Roger Faherty was in Springfield, too; but except for a brief visit to the mansion he spent his time fending off reporters at the Leland Hotel. Next day he was eating lunch at the hotel when he got a telephone call. Not stopping to finish his meal, he rushed to the Governor's home...
...looked as if Wendell Willkie had triumphed over the No. 1 political rule that you can't beat Somebody with Nobody. He was dead set against the isolationist Chicago Tribune's candidate, Werner W. Schroeder, as chairman of the Republican National Committee, but he espoused no candidate of his own. The result was that when the Committee gathered in St. Louis it permitted Somebody in the person of Mr. Schroeder to withdraw gracefully after two ballots, then proceeded by acclamation to name Nobody in the person of Harrison Earl Spangler of Iowa...
...supposed to stand for will be, at best, ersatz. For Mr. Spangler knew, as Willkie knew and as the Chicago Tribune knew, that no mere middle-course champion of compromise could ever span the gap within the party: between the Willkie wing and the extreme isolationist symbolized by Schroeder and Colonel McCormick's Tribune...