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...scheme should be based on the preservation of Gold Star Mothers' memories seems, however, a trifle lame as an alibi. Granted that the patriotic side of wars should be preserved, it is still unnecessary, foolish, harmful to prevent the public assimilation of truth. May the book, however grisly, impress citizens who pay millions in taxes for wholesale slaughters past and present, with the necessity for peace and the frightfulness of the combats that their taxes support...
Small dapper Congressman William I. Sirovich of New York is one of the best showmen in the House of Representatives. An M. D., he has been known to line up a row of grisly exhibits across the Speaker's rostrum to impress upon his colleagues the evils of narcotics. He is the author of Ten Commandments to End the Depression. He is also the author of three plays. To the assistance of other playwrights and other showmen Congressman Sirovich rode full tilt last week...
...Germany by yet more furious efforts. Lest German Communists grow discouraged and be taken in by the pre tensions of Enemy Hitler who already talks as if he were sure to become Ger man Chancellor. Exile Trotsky warned: "In every war the enemy tries to exaggerate its strength to impress the enemy. Hitler is just as good a braggart as Napoleon was. but his pretensions will be come true only the minute that the proletariat takes faith in them." Orating two days later to his Fascist followers at Munich, Leader Hitler flayed as "tools of Bolshevism" the Roman Catholics...
...coffee was delicious, boys!" exclaimed Democratic Speaker John Nance Garner one morning last week as he and ten other important Congressmen came away from a White House breakfast with the President Mr. Hoover had summoned Democrats and Republicans alike to impress upon them the urgency of quick Congressional action on relief legislation (see p. 6). A very black picture of Central Europe's finances was also painted, but the President pledged all his guests to secrecy as to the breakfast conference. That explained why Speaker Garner could only laud the meal as he hopped into a new White House...
...Baron von Dueben: "We implored her not to go to the police. We tried to impress on her that the death constituted something between herself, her mother...