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...prayers. In Holland, merry celebrants hailed the vast curtains of red, orange, purple, green, blue and white light shifting and shimmering in the northern sky as a happy omen for the delivery of Princess Juliana (see p. 77). In London, which had not seen the aurora borealis since the dire night of a Zeppelin raid during the War, someone, thinking that Windsor Castle was on fire, called the Windsor Fire Department. European telephone exchanges generally were jammed by excited or fearful inquiries...
...control, I may find it necessary to request additional appropriations for national defense. Furthermore, the economic situation may not improve-and if it does not, I expect the approval of Congress and the public for additional appropriations if they become necessary to save thousands of American families from dire need." Thus 1939's net deficit of $950,000,000 is not an estimate of probabilities, is in fact little more than a pious hope, for the two biggest expenditure items, Defense and Relief, are left open, will probably be upped...
...attack on dictatorships in his opening message to Congress. So last week Der Angriff, organ of the regimented German Labor Front, solemnly reported in a dispatch from the U. S.: "Lack of officially organized aid for the needy has resulted in frightful misery. In Cleveland 65,000 are in dire need. Numerous hungry persons sit crying, often with small children, in the municipal welfare bureaus begging for food...
...lighted by gas instead of oil, a group of such prominent citizens as Benjamin Chew, Horace Binney and Jacob Ridgeway wrote in consternation to the city council. They protested against the use of "an uncertain light, sometimes disappearing and leaving the streets and houses in total darkness." Despite these dire predictions, the city council spent $100,000 on a municipal gasworks which began supplying 46 street lights and two homes in 1836. Last week hundreds of Philadelphia housewives telephoned the city hall to find out whether the 100-year-old prophecy of Messrs. Chew & friends was going to come true...
...hrer's addresses. Before the Bureau was created editors were left to their own devices in straightening out Hitler's tortured utterances. They frequently failed and sometimes inadvertently produced a malicious twist to the Führer's statements. As an example of the dire need for expert editing for Adolf Hitler it was officially explained that before the Bureau began its work "80% of the quotations attributed to Hitler were misquotations...