Churchill acknowledged Fisher’s energy and prior genius. But he was seventy-four years old, Churchill wrote, in an oblique evisceration. As in a great castle which has long contended with time, the mi...
Contrary to the predictions of many students of international problems, I feel fairly certain that we shall not have war in the near future.
Even more systemic persecution was on the way, Messersmith wrote. He had learned that a draft existed of a new law that would effectively deprive Jews of their citizenship and all civil rights. German...
He knew that his day was coming to an end. On July 4, 1909, as he stood with friends on the roof of the Reliance Building, looking out over the city he adored, he said, You'll see it lovely. I never w...
Her blind endorsement of Hitler’s regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached,
His letter to Rice began, I have on hand a great project for the World’s Fair in Chicago. I am going to build a vertically revolving wheel 250’ in dia. Nowhere in this letter, however, did he reveal t...
Holmes cast himself as a demanding contractor. As workers came to him for their wages, he berated them for doing shoddy work and refused to pay them, even if the work was perfect. They quit, or he fir...
Holmes was testing his power to bend the lives of people.
I found the actual notes that Prendergast sent to Alfred Trude. I saw how deeply the pencil dug into the paper.
I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future, he wrote. In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no resul...
Klemperer detected a certain hysteria of language in the new flood of decrees, alarms, and intimidation—This perpetual threatening with the death penalty!—and in strange, inexplicable episodes of para...
Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir ine’s blood.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.Daniel H. Burnham
Messersmith wrote. We must keep in mind, I believe, that when Hitler says anything he for the moment convinces himself that it is true. He is basically sincere; but he is at the same time a fanatic. M...
Neurath saw himself as a sobering force in the government and believed he could help control Hitler and his party. As one peer put it, He was trying to train the Nazis and turn them into really servic...
No realm was too petty: The Ministry of Posts ruled that henceforth when trying to spell a word over the telephone a caller could no longer say D as in David, because David was a Jewish name. The call...
Of the four men in Preston Prichard’s cabin, D-90, only one survived, his friend Arthur Gadsden. Prichard’s body was never recovered, yet in the red volume that now contains the beautifully archived r...
One can evade a danger that one recognizes,' wrote historian Friedrich Zipfel, 'but a police working in the dark becomes uncanny. Nowhere does one feel safe from it. While not omnipresent, it could ap...
One of those who canceled citing illness was Lady Cosmo Duff-Gordon, a fashion designer who had survived the sinking of the Titanic. Another designer, Philip Mangone, canceled for unspecified reasons....
One soldier in the Ypres Salient, at Messines, Belgium, wrote of the frustration of the trench stalemate. We are still in our old positions, and keep annoying the English and French. The weather is mi...
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