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Germany's Commissioner for The Netherlands, persuasive Arthur Seyss-Inquart, was near the end of his tether last week. The Dutch just could not be persuaded. On a tour of the country, Commissioner Seyss-Inquart personally distributed batches of pamphlets showing Adolf Hitler as he used to be caricatured in The Netherlands and, beside the caricatures, flattering photographs illustrating "the true, kind personality of the Führer." Dutchmen simply folded the pamphlets to show their favorite caricature, then stuck them in the most convenient frame...
...Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel. Finally he waved the Purdue entries aside. Josh Biglands, sawedoff, red-faced herdsman of the University of Alberta, shortened his grip on "Robin Hood's" tether and nudged the Shorthorn steer's feet so that his 1,245 pounds were evenly distributed. Pretty Evelyn Asay, of Mt. Carroll, Ill., just hung on, let her Hereford shift his steaks however it suited him. Her bare knees shook with excitement in her half-length boots...
Seven years ago, in his The Shape of Things to Come, Britain's Herbert George Wells forecast a world war flaring out of Poland in 1940. Last week, arriving in Manhattan for a lecture tour, Prognosticator Wells guessed that Germany was at the "end of her tether," probably would lose the war. "Whether we will win," he added, "is another matter...
...this did not bring PM to the end of its tether, for Publisher Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, who promoted and managed the paper from the beginning, had provided it with a group of stockholders with exceedingly viable bank accounts. Nor were these losses a great tragedy to the stockholders, for most of them were people who could afford to own yachts, who regarded playing angel to a newspaper as one of the better ways of living up to their social responsibilities...
...linked in friendly tether...