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...write on the blank check thus signed over to him last week by German voters. In his "Heads will roll in the sand" declaration he promised that when he came to power his government would "seek to abrogate or revise the Treaty [of Versailles] by diplomatic negotiations. I solemnly assert that if these fail we shall proceed to ignore or circumvent the Treaty, with legal means if possible; failing that with illegal means. The world may call that 'illegal' but I am answerable solely to the German people for my actions...
...Hitler has the right," continued Dr. Ludwig, "to assert that his ideals of race, blood and war worship are indeed the German national ideals. . . . Among all the policies of the [Hitler] regime, .persecution of the Jews is the most popular...
Largely in the hands of small family companies, the beer barrel business is booming wherever and whenever whiteoak staves, air-dried for at least two years, can be obtained. Kiln-dried staves are disdained by some brewers though their makers assert they are in no way inferior. Meantime brewers are scouring Europe to make up the 6,000,000 kegs that the U. S. needs to bring its inventory to pre-Prohibition levels. In June alone $1,000,000 worth of kegs were imported from Germany. Using U. S. labor and fittings Dr. Hammer turns out 4,000 kegs...
...around the barns in which they kept stock which might be seized. A few boasted that they had strung up electrified barbed wire, shouted, "This is a tithe war!" Infinitely distressed and completely silent was Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. The legal experts of His Majesty's Government assert that ''the tithe is property''-which of course is sacred. Tithe rates (no longer the Biblical tenth of a farmer's produce) run less than $2 per acre per year, but English farmers, faced by a 50% drop in agricultural prices since the Tithe...
Potato-nosed Jimmy Durante, the living composite of Manhattan cab drivers, did not have to work hard for his laughs. Covered with characteristic confusion, Funnyman Durante finds himself trying to climb over the orchestra pit to assert his identity when an impostor is introduced on stage in the second scene. He appears to be, as usual, utterly unable to control his feelings. He shakes his parrotlike head, hurls his hat at the band, indulges his ignorant fondness for British idioms, tells the old one about the floorwalker who thought he was about to be kicked by the dog, sings snatches...