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Reza Shah Pahlavi is Iran's equivalent of Turkey's late, great KamÂl Atatiirk. Both men were rough soldiers who rescued their countries from the rule of nincompoop despots, strove to make them great. Almost singlehanded during the past 20 years, the Shah has mastered Iran...
...plane so high that many Senators felt a little difficulty in breathing. Crowded galleries, hoping for an old-fashioned quick-&-dirty scrap, with plenty of rabbit punches and hitting in the clinches, were disappointed. The Senate wrapped the toga of dignity and dullness about its collective paunch, and gamely strove for classic words...
...troughs of perpendicular little Albania. It laid a white blanket over thousands of stiff dead Italian soldiers on bleak slopes and in forested ravines from Porto Edda, where many of them had landed, northeastward to Lake Ochrida and the east-west gorges of the Shkumin River, where Italian commanders strove to make a stand against the relentless, amazing Greeks. Most Italians abhor cold as they do the sharp Greek bayonet, which Rome last week plaintively called a "barbaric and inhuman" weapon...
Historian Josephson is a former editor of The New Republic. In 1932 he strove in company with the League of Professional Groups to elect Communist William Z. Foster President. Outside of this, his firsthand experience of President-making is small. But what he lacks in experience he makes up in learning and distrust...
Last week, therefore, Detroit was once more motor-pacing the economy. Its 1941 models (see col. 3) were leaving assembly lines at the boom rate of 100,000 cars and trucks a week. Production men strove to keep up with dealers' orders. Dealers' used car stocks, which ended nascent auto booms in 1937 and 1939, were in the healthy neighborhood of 500,000-not too high. It looked like the start of a banner year...