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Last week Das Schwarze Korps, descended from appalling generalities to particulars. It proposed this program to destroy Germany's Jews as follows: first impoverish them; this will end in the Jews' having no other means of livelihood than to descend to criminality; "at this stage of development we should therefore face the hard necessity of exterminating the Jewish underworld in the same fashion in which ... we exterminate criminals generally?by fire and sword...
Already on its way down, one ship from New York landed with only its searchlights to feel the way. Two others went to Milwaukee. Still others approached the area slowly, awaiting a lights-on signal. Then one of these, from Fort Worth, with 15 passengers, prepared to descend. The great field was outlined feebly with lantern light. Down came the ship, its searchlights poking through the black, when suddenly the field lights blazed on and a frantic hour was over. Next day Chicago's City Council decreed immediate installation of an emergency power plant for Chicago Airport...
Author Hughes protests that In Hazard is not really a book about a storm, but about fear. That he conveys plenty of fear, tense readers will admit. But what will stick in most minds are the sharp descriptive passages-of a momentary lull when sea birds descend on the decks like mosquitoes, their only sound the crunching they make as they are crushed underfoot; of a scene, illuminated by lightning, when the crew looks out on a mountainside of water crawling with sharks...
Supreme Court, while 3,000 frenzied angels were getting ready to descend on their new heaven, liquidators of a defunct bank brought action to collect old judgments totaling $1,007 against Roosevelt-hating Howland Spencer, who conveyed the estate to Father Divine (TIME...
...Flying Governor George Howard Earle of Pennsylvania went up one soupy morning on a solo flight in a Waco cabin plane belonging to the State, could not find a hole to descend through, finally cracked up on the campus of a school for orphan girls. Results: 1) Colonel Camille Vinet, chief of the State's Aeronautics Bureau, grounded Student Earle for two weeks, 2) Citizen Earle promised to pay his State a $2,000 repair bill, 3) a prominent New Deal Governor very nearly made a sudden exit from the political scene...