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...scholar, Woodrow Wilson's peace-loving Wartime Secretary of War who organized an army of 4,000,000 men in less than two years; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Cleveland, Ohio. An early fighter for Cleveland reform and twice its mayor, he turned from trustbuster to corporation lawyer, from stanch Democrat to New Deal hater who this year helped contest TVA on behalf of power companies...
Some 100 "economic defense führers" will be named to this staff by Blomberg, to work with Germany's military keymen, Colonel General Werner von Fritsch (chief of the Army general staff), Admiral General Erich Raeder (Navy Minister), stanch-bellied' Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring (Air Minister & economic dictator). They will blueprint Germany's economic, industrial life and plan for complete and immediate mobilization in the event of. war. The Nazi object: preparation for "total war"-i. e., a fight in which every business, factory, mine is part of the German military machine...
...when Benjamin Harrison was the seventh Republican President of the U. S., two young Chicago lawyers named Robert McMurdy and Lester Coffeen opened a Republican social club in a three-story white stone house facing Lake Michigan. Last week to old Lawyer McMurdy, 77, and many another stanch Republican member came the news that the Hamilton Club, for four decades one of the most famous political fraternities in the U. S., was about to close its doors...
...fifth Congress of Germans Abroad. But the stolid citizens of the town were not interested in the milling ansländer. Instead they pushed their way into the konditorei shops, gorged themselves on fancy cakes, coffee with plumes of whipped cream floating on top. For months, since stanch-bellied Minister President Hermann Goring inaugurated the Four-Year Plan for Nazi self-sufficiency, the Germans have been deprived of their whipped cream. In Munich, Berlin, where critical tourists foregather, such delicacies have always been available, but at high prices to native Germans using controlled currency...
Left then to choose between judges sitting hundreds of miles from Washington and actual firsthand participants in the New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt chose the group he trusted best, eliminated the judges from consideration. Then it was: Reed, Minton or Black? Black, Minton or Reed? Stanley Reed has been a stanch defender of the New Deal before the very tribunal to which he might now be named, but Stanley Reed is also a bank director. Moreover, Kentucky is already represented on the bench by reactionary old James Clark McReynolds-at this thought Franklin Roosevelt may well have gritted his teeth...