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...devouring monster, and all the bitter denunciations emanating from ignorant and prejudiced sources cannot alter the fact that America owes her supremacy in world affairs to capitalism. . . . Woman, of course, through her great ownership of insurance, trust funds, stocks, savings bank accounts, homes, is the greatest capitalist in the world. We mobilize to save this capitalism...
Awarded. To Harold Fowler McCormick, Muriel McCormick Hubbard, Mathilde McCormick Oser, children of Chicago Capitalist Harold Fowler McCormick (International Harvester Co.) and the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick: thirds of the $12.000,000 trust fund set up for their mother by their grandfather John Davison Rockefeller Sr., claimed by Mrs. McCormick's friend Architect Edwin Krenn, to whom she bequeathed five-twelfths of her estate; by the District Court of Appeals; in Poughkeepsie...
Died. Robert B. Delano, 22, son of Manhattan Capitalist Lyman Delano, cousin and onetime Harvard roommate of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; by his own hand (shooting); on a plantation near Barranqueras, Argentine Chaco...
...Congress complete control of agriculture and industry. When the hour came for choosing candidates, George A. Nelson, Wisconsin farmer, onetime Alaskan sourdough, was nominated for Vice President. Norman Thomas, unopposed, was given the Socialist nomination for President for the third time. At this wholly expected choice, the delegates, aping Capitalist politicians, gave way to 15 minutes of shouting, cheering, singing as the white-haired nominee was carried to the platform, beaming, on the shoulders of two husky coal miners...
...Said he: ''The Reichswehr is far more shrewd than the Nazi Party. The General Staff is composed of scholars who know not only the military situation but the political and economic as well. . . . Before Hitler is through he will have helped considerably to wreck the already weak capitalist system here...