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Promptly the 20 angry union chiefs laid plans for a united front. In the offing was a threat of a national transportation strike. For years Franklin Roosevelt has had no stancher backers than the railroad brotherhoods, but last week the 1,100,000 nonoperating railroad men were told by their union leaders: "The responsibility for the present situation . . . rests with the President of the United States...
Nazi Germany has had no stancher friend in England than the tall, handsome 60-year-old Marquess of Londonderry, who owns vast estates which make him one of Britain's wealthiest autocrats. In Germany Lord Londonderry has made personal friends with Führer Adolf Hitler. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, Minister for Aviation Hermann Goring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...course, National Amateur Champion in 1904 and 1905, drew a few spectators as he eliminated two formidable contenders, the West's George Von Elm and the East's Jess Sweetser. But hardly anyone watched homely, courteous Francis Ouimet, National Champion in 1913 and 1914, beat Lawson Little. Only the stancher spirits and the prolix newspapermen witnessed the semi-finals in which Dr. Oscar F. Willing, deliberate dentist of Portland, Ore., downed courageous Oldster Egan, and Harrison ("Jimmy") Johnston kindly but firmly eliminated Francis Ouimet...
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