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...into his cloak of proletarian fervor. He contrasted himself again & again, the protector of the poor, with plutocratic foes. Lest Germans be disturbed, however, by thoughts that the Russians are also convinced proletarians of long standing, the country was plastered with posters showing German soldiers suffering from "Communistic dirt, filth, lice, disorganization, lack of most essential commodities...
Adolf Hitler's eastern drive has left behind it a vast morass of filth and malnutrition. Figures published in Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Statistical Bulletin show that in Poland in 1940 typhus increased ten times over 1939, in 1941 three times over 1940. In London last week Anthony Eden told Parliament that typhus was epidemic from the Russian front through eastern and southeastern Europe. Lithuania and Rumania were reported full of it. The Warsaw ghetto, crammed with Jews by Nazi command, was said to be a hell of typhus. Elsewhere in Poland the Nazis were capitalizing...
...Cabo de Buena Esperanza was no improvement over the Alsina. The Cabo ships are called "whited sepulchers" in South America, a reference to the smart white paint of their top sides and the filth, crowding, misery and disease inside their hulls. The whole ship stank, the food was nauseous, the ship's hospital used dirty newspapers for sheets. On the slow voyage across the Atlantic two more refugees died...
...photographers, said: "My opponent's head." Farley: "... A man who has openly and publicly made himself a liar, a speaker of insult . . . obscene language . . . wording so low . . . any individual so depraved as to dirty his tongue with uttering them . . . who believes in hypocrisy in action and filth in language." LaGuardia: "To quote two of their own county chairmen: 'That dope Herbie'" [meaning Lehman...
Since the privy program started, - 1935, health officials have noted a "gradual decline" in filth-borne diseases such as malaria and hookworm, a marked decline in the typhoid death rate. Said Mississippi's Sanitary Engineer Herbert Andrew Kroeze last week: "The privies are saving many lives...