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...became member No. 7 of the little party which was later to become the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis). He found an impressionistic economic program in the scrambled economic theories of another member, Gottfried Feder. And he found something much more important - his voice. One night a visitor said some friendly words about Jews. Without thinking twice, Hit ler burst forth in speech. He had become an orator...
...referred to Dr. Butler as "Almus Pater." The luster of world acclaim he received through his ubiquitous personal activities he passed on to his school. He has been decorated by 15 foreign nations and honored with degrees from 37 universities. H. G. Wells once called him "the champion international visitor and retriever of foreign orders and degrees." President for 20 years of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he won half a 1931 Nobel Prize. Friend Theodore Roosevelt dubbed him Nicholas Miraculous (after St. Nicholas Thaumaturgis, the "Miracle Maker"). Butler himself, never a diffident man, wrote some...
After the concert, the Minneapolis Symphony's conductor greeted a five-year-old backstage visitor. Patting the small, curly head, the conductor asked: "And what do you expect to do when you grow up, little man?" The boy replied: "Direct a symphony. I'll conduct your orchestra...
...economic front. One evening a silvery Douglas transport came down at a Chungking airfield. Out stepped its chief passenger, the Generalissimo, and a bulky hitchhiker, onetime OPA Boss Leon Henderson. The American, en route from Europe, had met the Generalissimo by chance in Kunming. But he was no chance visitor. The Generalissimo had asked him to study China's agonizing inflation...
...attend), Cinemactress Veronica Lake prayed: "Godspeed him home, wherever he is." Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, rushing to the rescue of Henry Wallace, told the Senate that Franklin Roosevelt was "on the verge" of meeting Stalin and Churchill. London correspondents cabled about a mysterious high U.S. visitor; two days later Britain's Official Court Calendar revealed that Harry Hopkins had conferred with King George VI. Hopkins went on from there, talked freely to newsmen in Paris and Rome (TIME...