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Never completely happy bedfellows are William Randolph Hearst, Roy Wilson Howard and the Associated Press. In the old days they were always at one another's throats. Roy Howard, as president of that lusty upstart, the United Press, battled the powerful old AP at every turn. Publisher Hearst, with a news service of his own (International), was long viewed with grave distrust by his brother members...
...which has immeasurably aggravated the tension is the decline of French dominance over Europe. The defection of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria has really broken up an alignment which was the main bulwark of her "security." With the more or less open and certainly rapid rearming of Germany, and the upstart manoevering of Mussolini--which produced the Balkan pact--France finds herself in an unobtrusive backseat. The League has gone, the Treaty with it, Germany is on the road back, (with an obvious goal,) and internally France is weakened by uncertainly--the stage could not better be set for a fascist...
...wise counsel been heeded instead of subjected to a rebuke by an upstart of a secretary, today six army fliers might well be alive, instead of a sacrifice to party politics...
Zion City is run by Overseer Wilbur Glenn ("The World Is Flat") Voliva of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. When he heard what the Christian Assembly Church, a schismatic upstart, was up to he became choleric, told his followers: "It's a publicity stunt. That church is a monkey house.'' Overseer Voliva sent his chief of police around but all that official could do was to have the loudspeakers shut off at night...
...reasoning and suggestions of his colleagues, especially Colleagues Couch and politically important onetime Senator Elaine. He humbly accepted and executed the gold-buying program of his President's Professor Warren. Never does he talk big, like his fellow titan General Johnson, well knowing that lest some upstart Jack arise to climb a beanstalk of prejudice and perhaps calumny, the RFC had best be known as a gentle giant...