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...right wing of the German government has never trusted the Parliamentary system very much and has hoped to cut down on the powers of Parliament and to increase the powers of the President and the state officials. It is natural that times of emergency should make louder and more general the call for a dictator. The acuteness of the prolonged economic crisis has made even many a Chamber of Commerce and farmer organization call for a wirtschaftdietatur. It is in the agricultural and business fields that the need for a dictator is most pressing...
...make a living. For him this is the basic fact. He sees the rest of the community benefited by the tariff, but the tariff does him no good because he has a surplus to sell abroad. What is he going to do about it? He asks in a louder and louder voice for price fixing?and Congress takes...
Since 1923, when he buzzed angrily out of New England, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, bumblebee of U. S. pedagogy, has circled uncertainly about over the educational field, shooting off for a space to Europe, returning to circle some more, with a louder buzz about an "independent college" to be founded for three millions with the aid of friends (TIME, June 25, 1923 et seq; Sept. 15, 1924). At one point, the students of Knox College informally extended a bouquet to the buzzing one, in the shape of their presidential chair (TIME, Dec. 29), but the circling continued, not only because...
...baseball crowd in the U. S. ever roared louder than the record crowd that traveled from far and wide to see the match at Taunton. "Hurrah," they yelled. "Hip, hip, hooray," they cheered. "For he's a jolly good fellow," they sang as they flocked on to the field, crowded the embarrassed cricketer, saw him drink a goblet of champagne...
...about 11, something woke in the obscure night over their heads; at first no more than a drowsy, indistinguishable murmur, then a louder whine, like the nasal complaining of some fabulous insect; presently its eye became visible?a small inflamed pimple, swathed in huge bandages of mist. The more alert of the two campers nudged his companion...