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...life Zygmunt Zygielbojm fought the good fight for the Jewish people of Warsaw. When the Germans came he organized workmen's battalions. At the hour of surrender he stood before the Germans, defying them in a fiery speech and prophesying: "We shall perish, but we will never go to your ghetto...
Italian Blessings. Brutal in conquest, the Italians were energetic imperialists. Their engineers, with sweating soldier-workmen and native labor, blasted, graded, bridged and finally smoothed 4,340 miles of asphalt and macadam highway over Ethiopia's desert areas, muddy lowlands, rolling valleys, deep ravines and high, broad plateaus. Some 10,000 miles of lesser roads were opened...
Illegal. In Florida's Supreme Court, Willis Abram Briggs, who said he had fallen ill as a result of a fleabite, lost his fight for workmen's compensation because he had felt the flea bite him but had not actually seen it happen...
...burgeoning plastic-metals industry had another achievement to report last week. Hefty Andy Langhammer, head of Chrysler's Amplex Division, announced that his workmen were making tool steel from soft iron rust...
Look Out, Jock. Sheean got to Paris just before the Nazis. He saw the confusion that centered around Helene de Portes, Premier Reynaud's mistress, whom Sheean believes to have been the shrewish organizer of defeat. In Britain, Sheean walked past the workmen stringing barbed vire around the Houses of Parliament. "So it's come to this, has it?" said Lady Diana Cooper, "in that curiously husky voice;" Inside Parliament Sheean heard history made by "a colorless voice." It was Clement Attlee reading the one-sentence law which declared that for the duration all persons and property were...