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...Securities & Exchange Act, Mr. Davis declared: "Modesty reigned when that Act was drawn and passed and there was a bow at least to constitutional power. I find in this [Utility] Act not so much of a gesture." Earlier in the week SEC's new Chairman James McCauley ("Chink") Landis had invited representatives from all the major holding companies to Washington for what turned into almost a love feast...
...make some sort of deal with Hitler. Finally in January 1933, at the home of Cologne Banker Franz von Schroeder, von Ribbentrop engineered the first meeting of Political Upstart Adolf Hitler and weak, perpetually scheming Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen, who had the ear of Hindenburg. Through the chink thus opened Herr Hitler eventually forced his way to power as Chancellor, finally succeeding Hindenburg - and remaining to this day grateful to von Ribbentrop who presently became a General. Last week the two men were closeted in the Realmleader's mountain snuggery amid the pungent pines of Bavaria. A zipping...
...among people interested in the drama. Much of this praise is legitimate, although such grandiose heralding as "magic players in magic plays," and "brilliant repertoire," approaches the kissing of the Blarney Stone. It is doubtful whether Synge, perhaps the greatest of the Irish playwrights, as he listened through a chink in the floor of his upstairs room in a little peasant house where he lived to learn and understand the Irish, would appreciate this box-office phrasing. Since O'Casey and Yeats take it with a grain of salt, it must be necessary. The plays are simple and forthright...
...distinction: "Chink," "Mick." "Wop." "Dago," "Nigger." and "wench" are words invented by Anglo-Saxons for derisive application to non-Anglo-Saxons. But Anglo-Saxons learned from Indians to call Indian women "squaws." Squaw is the Narragansett (and Algonquin) Indian word meaning "a female" just as sannnp means a male Indian, a brave. TIME will continue using "squaw." with no derision intended or conveyed...
...lecherous old swine like Primo de Rivera." For any Spaniard would recognize the allusion to an occasion when the Chief of Police of Madrid personally conducted a raid on a celebrated bawdy house, thundered on the door, and then slunk away as the proprietor whispered through the chink, "I can't let you in, because Primo is already here...