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Around Bismarck, whence he came, Bill Langer has a stanch following of voters who feel that he is just as good as the next man. They twice elected him Governor. When he was tried on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Federal Government in administering relief, one jury convicted him, another disagreed, a third set him free. But when his people sent him to the Senate last year, a group of North Dakota citizens protested...
...Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon, industrialist, M.P., did give TIME a hurried interview but TIME did not garble it. A stanch Roman Catholic, Sir Patrick disclosed that he cooled off on the Oxford Group when he found that Roman Catholic representatives were not included as signatories to a Group press manifesto concerning "religious freedom." Sir Patrick added that on investigating Group claims to have forestalled work stoppages in the Midlands, he had found they had actually been avoided by "sordid means" -he used the phrase with a twinkle in his eye-"like better pay and better hours...
...loaded news columns, the Colonel invokes the tradition of personal journalism that made the Tribune great under his famed grandfather Joseph Medill, Lincoln's stanch backer and crony ("Take your Goddamned feet off my desk, Abe") and one of the Civil War's fieriest propagandists. Old Medill summed up his news technique in a classic story in 1857 headed A BRUTE. One James Wheeler was fined $5 for maltreating his wife. The Tribune story concluded: "A few months' experience in breaking stones in the Bridewell would do this Wheeler a 'power of good...
Filipinos (who constitute 75% of its readers) are its stanch supporters. In a format resembling the Satevepost, it includes a capable foreign-news section, feature articles, political gossip, Washington correspondence...
Rundstedt, the oldest, is also the best. Before the Nazis came to power, he was a stanch royalist, a faithful Hindenburg man. Now he is the Nazis' high priest of strategy. Belittlers of Chief of the High Command Wilhelm Keitel used to say that Keitel was such a coxcomb that he wouldn't even listen to Rundstedt. Rundstedt is easily the most experienced German commander. He alone of the present crop of generals was an Army Corps Chief of Staff in World War I. He will go down in German history as a hero because...