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...dimmed, the Blue Eagle wavered into a tail spin, and the sorrowing man with the bottle nose resigned. The Supreme Court ended it for good & all. The General became a Scripps-Howard columnist-by turns for seven years morose, exultant, vitriolic, sentimental, wrathful, lachrymose. Old Army man, he scolded upstart militarists, nagged the new New Deal ("economic pansies"), yearned for the old New Deal of NRA. He lambasted "my friend Franklin Roosevelt." From time to time he saw things with an amazingly discerning eye. From time to time he lost himself in strange clouds, wandered, a bitter wraith, among...
Orson Welles, who produced, directed, wrote and starred in the most provocative picture of 1941, Citizen Kane, was conspicuously overlooked by Hollywood in its annual kudos-giving.* Upstart Welles, though he and his first picture had been nominated by the members for nine Academy Awards (far more than any other star or picture), was awarded half an Oscar (for the best original screen play; co-authored by Herman J. Mankiewicz...
...Guard brokers still think of Merrill Lynch as a lucky upstart, resent its flashy merchandising methods, stick to their traditions of not publishing any annual reports at all. But none of them sneered at M.L.'s profit figures...
Returning to post-war Germany, he was persuaded by Grand Admiral (then Captain) Erich Raeder to stick with the Navy-the crumb of a fleet left the Reich by the Versailles Treaty. He finally cast his lot with the Nazi Party solely because of his conviction that the upstart Brown Shirts would break down Versailles restrictions against recreation of his fleet. He gained powerful supporters in the German Inner Circle: Admiral Otto Schniewind, former director of naval education, now Chief of Staff of the German Navy High Command, is his close friend. The Luftwaffe's Hermann Göring...
...recalled that the proud Field Marshal's troops, after taking Kiev and Kharkov, had been roughly handled in the Russian counteroffensive. It was also recalled that the aristocratic Field Marshal had long regarded Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler as a crude, lower-middle-class upstart. In Czecho-Slovakia, when the Field Marshal tried to take over a hotel for his staff from Heinrich Himmler, the Gestapo Chief, refusing, declared: "Some day I'll settle up with...