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...Waterloo, British officers danced till dawn. Last week, as another no less significant zero hour approached, Germans did equally strange things. Adolf Hitler, as well as Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Goring's half-Aryan Air Chief of Staff, Colonel General Erhard Milch, and numerous high Army officers all went to the theatre. Ordinary Germans flocked to the just opened Kurfurstendamm street cafes where young couples enjoyed the privacy of darkness, and oldsters listened to the newest song hit, Woodpecker's Serenade. Foreign correspondents switched off their teletypes and went home to bed. When...
...Mourned Colonel Luke Lea of Nashville. Tenn. (who almost kidnapped Kaiser Wilhelm II from a castle at Amerongen, Holland in 1919): "The U. S. is not at war. . . . Therefore ... no American can accept the alluring adventure advanced by President Church...
Classic example of a historic U. S. figure-the self-made man-is hulking, ruddy Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, whose big competent mechanic's hands work the president's controls of one of the half-dozen biggest U. S. corporations: General Motors Corp. Danish-born Bill Knudsen believes (with personal justification) that success's best recipe is competence and hard work, its most powerful attraction the prospect of good...
...four Du Ponts-Henry B., Henry F., Lammot, Pierre-who dominate the board; 220,434 workers in no plants, 14 States (Michigan, California, Massachusetts, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Washington), who earned $386,292,203 last year; grey-red, hulky President Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, who has earned $307,200 in a single year (1937); husky, handsome Max Raynes, 27, a Detroit buckaroo who spends his dough (wages last week: $40.79) on clothes and girls, gives his old father $5 a week; Floyd Forbus, 36, of Flint, who made $1,800 last year...
...called "fishing steamers" whose mother ship was the 5,400-ton Nazi cruiser Emden. Queries from Reykjavik as to why the Emden constantly hung about near Iceland's capital drew from Berlin polite assurances that this was a gesture of "honor and respect." Earlier, Nazi Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring had the whole terrain of Iceland and Greenland minutely inspected by a corps of German so-called "genealogists," "geologists" and "experts in falconry." Reykjavik meanwhile suddenly sprouted an Icelandic Nazi Party of native stooges with German paymasters. Preparations for a coup in Iceland were believed almost complete...