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...jail all Catholic priests held on political charges. Moreover, he rescinded a whole batch of decrees under which Catholic organizations had been dissolved, permitted them to reorganize. These acts showed where the Chancellor's heart inclined, but his voice as usual was raised in triumphant bombast...
...though another flight into the upper air of serious attention might be in store for the limp technocratic skyrocket which last winter burst in a dazzling festoon of headlines and sputtered out in the back pages of hinterland newspapers. Then Howard Scott the Technocrat let off a preliminary bombast: ''We want men of action and when I say men, I mean males and females. Our light is to abolish the price system. Bayonets will line up those who wilfully refuse to join the movement. The Roosevelt raw deal is the greatest boloney ever perpetrated. In eight weeks inventories...
...clock at night. In the Berlin Chancellery last week Adolf Hitler locks himself in his study, alone with his secretary, to write a speech. World opinion, inflamed by months of bombast and race persecution, hems Germany in. The Geneva Disarmament Conference has been temporarily adjourned, stymied by Germany's insistence, bluntly transmitted through Delegate Rudolf Nadolyny on Germany's right to re-arm with tanks, planes, siege guns. Chancellor Hitler's "goodwill envoy" to Britain, Dr. Alfred Rosenberg has had to be hastily recalled before a storm of anti-Nazi demonstrations in London. Unofficial Jewish boycotting...
...Paul, Irish, German, resents bombast of Minneapolis, Swedish: result, cat-&-dog squabbles beyond count. To restore faith in TIME, move Kellogg back to east side of Mississippi, rescue proud Peace-Pact spirit from uneasy wanderings among flour mill tycoons...
...going to tell these people something about the art racket. . . . This country has been imposed on by French superior salesmanship [see p. 32]. It is the victim of cheap little lawyers who become diplomats, and financiers who let their wives buy pictures from dealers who perfume them with bombast and saddle them with trash...