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Adolf Hitler paused briefly to inspect the three-story building in one flat of which he was born at Braunau on the River Inn. A janitor of a school once attended by Hitler as a boy fired one shot, not at Hitler who was nowhere near, but over the heads of some Storm Troops. They took his gun, and flogged him. The mothers of three babies just born at Vienna were announced to have named each "Adolf." As Adolf approached the provincial capital at Linz, Austrian crowds were cheering everyone they could think of, even bellowing "Hell Ward Price!" since...
...added to this are those factors born of depression. No matter what career most of these men may choose, the prospect seems far from rosy. Even if outstandingly successful, few men of '38 will be able to support themselves as comfortably as did their parents. Speak to any member of '37 who has not yet found employment--estimates as to their number vary from 15 per cent to 20 per cent exclusive of those in graduate schools, and a grim view of the future will be obtained. It is a dangerous situation when men may be asked to sacrifice their...
...Czechoslovakia, Europe's "danger spot," Professor Langer said, "We can hope that Hitler will rest on his laurels." One possible solution might lie in drastic revision of the war-born state's constitution, he said, since Slovaks as well as Germans have been clamoring for autonomy...
Author Seabrook got the idea by looking around at his foreign-born neighbors in the Hudson River's Rhinebeck Valley, where he owns an eight-acre farm., In his boyhood days in Maryland and Kansas these neighbors would have been called dumb Swedes, squareheads, Dagos, Polacks, Heinies, wops, troublemakers, agitators and so forth. In Rhinebeck they were just neighborly Americans, Republicans, Democrats. Seabrook had a hunch that elsewhere in the U. S. the foreign born were equally good citizens. He decided to take a look for himself...
Harriet Monroe was apparently the only person in Chicago who could have made such an attempt. Born there in 1860, she always regarded it as a village. Her father was a well-read, moderately successful lawyer who could not keep track of money, complained about his wife's hats to her milliner, fought constantly and sometimes fiercely with his wife about her extravagance. Overawed and tormented by an older sister, Harriet was educated in a convent in Georgetown, D. C., grew dreamy, introspective and so romantic that her admirers were unable to measure up to her ideal...