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...Just as my statue towers above the sons of earth, so shall the district from whose breast the ore and coal were torn and fused to give me birth, exceed all others in time's march. For o'er and o'er nature hath flung her treasures with a generous hand and Birmingham sits enthroned. Both hemispheres can draw on her; the mineral wealth of every land is there allied to rule the world in future years...
...protested: "Velocity dollars have nothing whatever in common with Social Credit, and Premier Aberhart has enacted not one single genuine Social Credit statute in Alberta." The great thing "Bible Bill" has done for mortgage-ridden Alberta farmers is to decree arbitrarily that no interest rate in the Province can exceed...
...Mussolini recently strengthened his control over industrial Italy by (1 abolishing labor unions, 2 setting up a Fascist Council to determine wages and prices, 3 decreeing 100% taxation on all profits over 5%, 4 decreeing that Italian imports must not exceed 10% of exports, 5 nationalizing banks and large industries...
...wenches' joy did not exceed that of the Rhineland menfolk. In Cologne the reaction of a dignified German burgher on his way by street car to a funeral in crape arm band and black stovepipe hat was significant. On hearing the glorious rumor, he swung off the street car and bustled toward Cathedral Square, where the first troops were expected to arrive, puffing: "The first soldier I get my hands on is going to get as cockeyed-drunk at my expense as I did when I was a soldier in 1914-and I'm going to get cockeyed...
...fact that the President does not have to coerce the Senate in this unsurpation of legislative power; slavery is always more shameful when it is willing rather than forced. And if this were an isolated case, we should merely have to reprove the Senate for letting the executive exceed his authority. But there are other examples of this kind of forced appropriation, and the appropriating power of Congress is in grave danger. Roosevelt plays the same game with the Passamaquoddy project, the Gila Dam, and the Florida ship canal. It is quite clear that Congress is expected to finish whatever...