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...than "blood and race," the Nazi leader of Franconia, famed Julius Streicher, Boss of Nürnberg and pal of Adolph Hitler, came out with a ringing demand: "The new laws for the protection of German racial purity must be extended to dolls and wax figures. It is an insult to German womanhood that Jewish children should play with dolls having German faces. The Jews must be forced to manufacture dolls with definitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Bishops & Dolls | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

Canton's head man, Marshal Chen Chi-tang, seized the moment to insult Nanking and Generalissimo Chiang: "The Southeast will never witness a duplication of the spectacle of more than 100,000 Chinese soldiers evacuating an immense area without firing a shot in obedience to demands of the heads of the Japanese Army. . . . If Nanking orders the Southeast to agree to any unreasonable Japanese demands, we would refuse to obey and would stand up and tight for China's rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Stand Up & Fight | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...well knows fact that this practice exists at Harvard on a smaller scale. Competition for the trade is a threat to the dignity and worth of the Harvard degree, an insult to the faculty for not knowing their students well enough to obviate the possibility of such thing, and an indication that students in American colleges today are not only willing to degrade themselves morally but are also willing to confess their unfitness for a college education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVERY MAN A GHOST | 10/11/1935 | See Source »

...quote remarks made by Rachel Kollock McDowell, who, according to the statement made therein, is a member of the Presbyterian Church, which are an insult to the Protestant Faith and the Presbyterian Church in particular. J. H. CORWIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1935 | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...implications of this proviso struck the German Reichstag so forcibly that Deputies clutched their quaking midriffs and the whole chamber roared with Homeric laughter until tears of mirth glistened on many a cheek. Banging down his gavel President Göring boomed: "No Jew can insult Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Little Man, Big Doings | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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