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...Berlin giving press interviews as though he were already Chief of State. In Leipzig a congress of pharmacists and physicians turned into a typical Fascist rally. Hitlerite orators, drunk with the sound of their own voices, shouted their program to maintain the superiority of "the Nordic race, the finest flower on the tree of humanity." They mentioned the hanging of Marxists, abolition of trade unions, compulsory sterilization of Jews...
...emergency tariff on industrial products (TIME, Nov. 30) will shortly be extended to tax up to 100% imports of fresh cherries, currants, gooseberries, hothouse grapes, plums and strawberries ; fresh asparagus, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, chicory, cucumbers, endive, lettuce, mushrooms, green peas, new potatoes, tomatoes and turnips; cut flowers, plants in flower, bulbs, foliage and rose trees...
...Upperville, Va., Reverend Everett Hinks was annoyed by neighbors' chickens eating the flowers in his garden. Chicken-owning neighbors of Mr. Hinks denied their fowl had committed the depredations. Mr. Hinks, ingenious, got many pieces of string, tied one end of each to a kernel of corn and the other end to a placard, left them in his flower garden. One day his astonished neighbors heard their chickens crowing lustily, found hanging from their beaks placards bearing the legend: "I Have Been in Reverend Hinks' Flower Garden...
...unconventional is to be damned. Out of the fears of the dull and the struggles of the damned springs Fashion, full-armed, and Gossip, first instruments of human culture and advancement. That these necessities have found a spokesman on Beacon Hill is a subject for congratulation. Such literature flowers from the good sub-soil of snobbery, without which no society could exist, a pale flower, but unquestionably an orchid...
Then pandemonium broke. Steam whistle cords were tied down. Flower garlands rained through the air. Loyal subjects yelled their throats out. Their Majesties, smiling, nodding, drove over brick paved streets lined with every uniform in Siam: boy scouts, girl scouts, the army, navy, police and diplomatic corps were out en masse. Even the thousands of naked children that normally clutter the streets of the city were swathed by their proud parents in bunting...