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...administration candidate, Joseph McKee split the ticket wide open and led to a Fusion victory. But to add insult to injury only last fall an enlightened electorate voted to adopt an entirely new charter, the final fruit of Judge Seabury's investigations, doing away with the great Tammany stronghold, the Board of Aldermen, in favor of a City Council, and setting up a system of proportional representation, so that no one party could in future gain complete domination of the Citys finances and control...
...starting his Saragossa offensive now, Leftist General Sebastian Pozas had good reason last week. But six weeks of decent fighting weather remain before the bitter Spanish winter closes down. Gijon, last Leftist stronghold on the Bay of Biscay, was so close to capture that most of its officials had already fled to sanctuary in France, and in the field of foreign diplomacy, where so much of Spain's war has been fought, Generalissimo Franco's chief supporter, Italy, was finishing a most successful week...
...satisfactions to the chub-cheeked Premier were three: the defeat of handsome, dapper Earl Rowe, new Conservative leader, the victory of Gordon Conant, Hepburnite, at Oshawa-scene of last April's C. I. O. strike against General Motors, squashed by "Mitch"-and a Liberal victory in northern Ontario, stronghold of the C. I. O. mining unions...
Capture of Jaca would not only give the Leftists control of two of these lines, tremendous advantage should France make good her repeated threat to open the frontier for volunteers and munitions, but it would also make a flank attack on the Rightist stronghold of Saragossa possible. To Generalissimo Franco the threat to Jaca had an even gloomier significance: it meant that the Aragon Front, consistently the quietest sector in the entire war, had been kicked into action by the energetic Negrin Government at Valencia. It meant that undisciplined malingering Leftist militiamen who had been quite content to play football...
With the respective cliques of General Goring, Propagandist Goebbels and Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley all struggling for mastery of German economic and financial policy last week, Dr. Schacht himself went off to Essen and in this Krupp stronghold addressed a meeting of 400 directors of German savings banks. Some of them came out convinced they had heard the brusque, autocratic Reichsbanker squawk a guttural swan song. Others thought Dr. Schacht had delivered publicly just such an accounting of his stewardship as he might have made in private to convince the Führer that German economy must continue...