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...book form appeared Behind the Ballots,* Jim Farley's "personal history of a politician," fascinating reading for all who like politics. Written mostly by Mr. Far ley, the book is strong proof that Presidents, like babies, are not left by the stork but born of patient labor. Mr. Farley shows to quiet, blunt, shrewd advantage as the man who made one President and might well make another. For serial rights, The American Magazine paid...
There is no evidence that Herr Hitler thinks Frau Ludendorff an eccentric and she thinks "Germany is Paradise." So does potent Dr. Robert Ley, leader of the Labor Front into which 20,500,000 Ger man workers have been mustered. Keynoted Orator Ley last week as 1,500,000 Nazis began heading toward the Parteitag: "If there is a Paradise, I feel sure it cannot be more beautiful than National Socialist Germany! . . . There are persons who preach to a snickering audience that: 'Faith moves Mountains.' This is said to have happened 2,000 years ago. Now National Socialism...
...Robert Ley, leader of the German Labor Front, bubbled with enthusiasm, even foresaw the use of People's Cars as Nazi baby buggies: "Within ten years every German who works will or can be the owner of a KdF car. No manna falls from heaven! If you want socialistic advantages you must work for them. National Socialism is not weakly but manly Socialism! We hope the KdF car will even raise the German birth rate by encouraging German families to have four or five children to fill it. ... This very year the first section of the KdF factory, which...
...societies have decided Fascist or Nazi complexions, neither plugs Party propaganda unduly. Periodically both think of themselves as part of a world-wide working people's organization for better-spent leisure. At Berlin is located an International Central Office for Work and Joy, presided over by Dr. Robert Ley, the German Labor Front-Leader. This bureau grew out of two World Congresses for Recreation, the first in Los Angeles in 1932, the second in Hamburg in 1936. The third-with the name now changed by Dr. Ley to the World Congress for Work and Joy-was held last week...
Until the next war the Ley and sister ships will cruise regularly to the Mediterranean and Norwegian Fjords, carry "deserving workers," approved by their employers and the Labor Front. The fare to approved passengers will be as little as $30 per trip. Closing the launching ceremonies, Orator Hitler, looking meaningly at a big delegation of voters from Germany's newest province, Austria, cried: "What formerly was available only to a small privileged class we shall make available...