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...anything else for in the event of a war with the Reich in the near future she certainly cannot be so rash as to believe that she could rely on the support of the Soviet. Russia has shown that she will accept a great deal in the way of downright insult from the Nazis; and if there is one thing which would be anathema to her now, it would be to become involved in a general European war. Consequently, any such struggle would almost certainly have its inception in France-German irritation, and there is no reason to think that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 1/11/1934 | See Source »

...Individualists," were his principal targets of attack on his barnstorming trips out of Washington to sell NRA to the country. He can whip almost any audience into a fine frenzy of exaltation for the President's recovery program and, adopting a familiar Wartime trick, can make it appear downright unpatriotic to block NRA's advance. Yet for a man who lives by invective and abuse of his foes, General Johnson is surprisingly thin- skinned to criticism of himself and his cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Man of the Year, 1933 | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...Downright Judicial Blunder!" screamed a bulletin from the Nazi Party official news bureau. "We demand a fundamental reform of our judicial system. To avert another such decision German Justice must be purged of outworn, alien and liberal conceptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death To A Dutchman | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...diseases; abolition of child labor; suppression of the "sweating system"; reduction of working hours with at least one day in seven free; a living wage; "suitable provision" for old and incapacitated workers. Tame though it sounds today, Dr. North's social program struck many a good churchman as downright radical in 1908. Since then the Federal Council has revised its credo, adding notably stronger clauses on social planning and control of credit and money; a "just share" of profits for workers; old age, sickness and unemployment insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Federal Council's 25th | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...where he just ain't no count," Colonel W. T. Johnson, colorful director of the Rodeo in the Boston Garden, drawled in a CRIMSON interview last night. "Of course, I believe in edication: I went to school awhile myself, but about so much edication, and a fellah gets downright simple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rodeo Director Laughs at Dude Ranchers, But Feels Too Much Education No Help To Riders | 11/4/1933 | See Source »

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