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...seen a pagan in the flesh and he thought that this might be a good chance. As for that matter he didn't even know that there was an Old China Movement, but the whole idea rather intrigued him. All in all he felt rather ignorant about that great blot on the world's map which was always printed in a bright yellow, and figuring he had better snap up the chance, he decided to stroll over to Emerson D about eight o'clock and see what the whole thing was about. Maybe Chinese girls didn't all wear...
Signor Filippo Tomaso Marinetti founded Futurism in Art with a famed manifesto on Feb. 20, 1909. In the name of Futurism he later urged letting canals run through art galleries-to blot out the pestilential past. Still later Signor Marinetti fought for Fascism, and became a close friend of II Duce. Down through the years he poured out Futurist manifestoes echoing Fascist policies...
...subsidizes Mexican papers, sponsors magazines such as the blatantly pro-Nazi Timón, and finances local Nazi organizations such as the Vanguardia Nacional. A number of smooth young Nazis arrived from the U. S. and Latin America to augment his staff; secret radio stations operated by his experts blot out American broadcasts and fill the ether with Nazi propaganda; reports of huge caches of firearms smuggled from Germany are deliberately circulated by his agents. Independent of support from Germany, he finances his organization by forced contributions from Mexico's 6,500 Germans and by assessing German firms...
...Civilization" and "The Culture of Cities," who is at Harvard for a three week stay while he gives six lectures on "The Backgrounds of American Architecture" believes that the United States should actively aid France and England in order to halt "the demonic spread of Fascism, that may yet blot out our civilization...
...will have an opportunity to present our side at the trial. I have complete confidence in our courts. . . . I ask only that the public reserve judgment until all of the facts are known. . . . I regret keenly that the Government has found it necessary to place the blot of an indictment on the name of my son, Walter [indicted with two other Annenberg officials on charges of aiding and abetting the alleged evasion...