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...Schacht refuses to understand," wailed a close friend of Dr. Goebbels. "He has cut to zero the sums we may transmit out of the Fatherland for enlightenment abroad." In their sorrow Dr. Goebbels' somewhat naíve henchmen then revealed a fact???utterly staggering if it were a fact. They said blandly that Dr. Goebbels has been spending on propaganda abroad 200,000,000 marks or $80,000,000 a year, nearly $10,000 per hour, night & day. Since this would be enough to pay the interest for over two years on the Dawes and Young bonds now belligerently defaulted...
...second week's hearing at Albany popped into the open one new fact???the name of Betty Compton, musicomedienne, as the "unknown person" to whom Mayor Walker had given $7,000. During a recess Chicago Tribune's John Boettiger asked if it were...
Thus the brown tide is steadily rising, checked only by a coalition of all other German parties except the Nationalists and Communists. This major fact???the rising Fascist tide?President von Hindenburg's tremendous personal victory tended to obscure last week. In the 1930 Reichstag Election, Herr Hitler's "Joke Party" rose from ninth to second parliamentary rank (TIME, Sept. 12, 1930). On the basis of last week's presidential returns the Fascist Party is now first in Germany. It cannot, of course, assume first rank in parliament until there is another Reichstag Election?which President von Hindenburg and Chancellor...
...Wright assures the reader that "there was not a feature of that service which would not have been endorsed by all churches. There was not a word of the sermon which would not have been endorsed by all ministers. It was simply Christianity in spirit and in fact???and it was nothing else. . . . The groceryman and his four friends knew that they had made no mistake. . . . The minister left the rostrum through the arched way. . . . There was no effusive and perfunctory handshaking by an ap- pointed committee at the door . . . the people went out from the house of worship...
...sight. Yet when at length the body stopped twitching and the last masked executioner went home to bed, the sheriff and his men lingered in the warehouse, talking about a variation which distinguished this lynching from all other lynchings of their experience. It was hard to believe, but a fact???among the hangers had been several women...