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...outside Germany or there will be a European conflict-and what a conflict!-within a short time. . . . Will the Nazis take Salzburg by force? And if this coup takes place, however it may happen, will Europe let it occur without acting?" In Vienna last week Chancellor Dollfuss, like a chick trying to round up a brood of flustered hens, was trying desperately to get together a political consolidation to fight Naziism. President Wilhelm Miklas had shown him last week the Socialist petition signed by 1,250,000 Austrians, nearly one-third of the electorate, demanding the end of the Dollfuss...
...spite of strong indications to the contrary, the U. S. still believes that Culture is a hot-house growth and can be fertilized with filthy lucre. When a tycoon turns angel and takes under his wing the perishable eggs of Art, many an ugly duckling, many a dubious chick, come squawking in to get a share of the pickings. The late Kodak tycoon, George Eastman, brooded to such good purpose that he hatched some fine, large eggs. In The Fault of Angels Author Horgan tells a story whose background is the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, N. Y. Citizens...
...truth of the matter is there have been remarkably few cancellations and that there has been no surplus of baby chicks in this territory during the banking holiday. . . . I know of n > industry which has experienced such a steady flow of incoming orders through the present difficulties, as our hatcheries. Although the moratorium has struck during the height of the baby chick season, I can introduce you to numer>inn hatcherymen in this district who have more orders on their books (accompanied by a substantial deposit) than they had booked at the same date last year...
...Holland & Zeeland, Mich., centres of the baby chick industry, tons of eggs were gestating in incubators, customers were canceling orders by the thousands, and the ground was yellow with peeping, scratching fledglings...
...Chicago, while Barbara Chick was filling cafeteria sugar bowls, two gunmen came in, demanded the money from the cash register. Said she, "Get it yourself. This place is cafeteria style...