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Eyes Abroad. Few people believe that Lázaro Cárdenas would stoop to such a device. He could insure a peaceful election by throwing his support to Almazán, but that would probably mean the end of Mexico's New Deal. The future of the Cárdenas revolution depends to a large extent upon paradoxical international relations. Although politically aligned with the democracies, Mexico's economic mess has driven the country into closer economic relations with Japan, Germany and South American countries. Mexico still mortally fears gringo imperialism, whose representatives are again taking advantage...
...puzzled chapter to Göring, who once told him that the trouble with the British was that they had become "debrutalized." Sir Nevile admired Göring's loyalty to Hitler, his administrative ability, his physical courage, his sportsmanship, above all his frankness, which does not stoop to devious deceits. He credits Göring with intervening decisively for peace in 1938, thinks he would have done so in 1939 if he had dared risk Hitler's displeasure. Summing him up, Sir Nevile found him "a typical and brutal buccaneer; but he had certain attractive qualities...
...State Teachers College, one of the South's best, with nearly 1,000 students and a $2,500,000 plant. Dr. Dougherty, president of the college, is a power in the State. At 69, he has lost none of his sharpness, none of his homespun ruggedness. Bald and stoop-shouldered, he always wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat and stiff collar. When he has a political chore to do in Raleigh, he collars legislators in hotel lobbies, doodles with a pencil stub on one of his shoe soles while he talks to them...
...Senateur Cachin, aging Communist organizer and leader, member of the Communist International presidium at Moscow, had created a problem by doing and saying exactly nothing. Onetime professor of literature at Bordeaux, erudite and witty, never one to take to the streets for demonstration, this tired, stoop-shouldered veteran perhaps hoped he could save his job on the basis of past deeds for the Third Republic. At World War I's start M. Cachin, Left-wing Socialist editor of Humanité, rang the bells for patriotism, called Kaiser Wilhelm II "that mad dog." An expert on Italian radical movements...
...lackadaisical about repairs that they frequently have to make them themselves. No less archaic is the company's pole policy. When poles blow down or rot away, line men whack off the diseased portion, resink the stub into the ground. Result is that subscribers sometimes have to stoop to get under the wires...