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Snapped Governor Bricker, who has dark-horse aspirations for the Republican Presidential nomination: "The Federal authorities . . . seem more interested in the politics of the affair than in helping the needy. . . . The lurid catch phrases which are being used by political opponents are no more applicable in Ohio than in any other State...
...Lurid or political, at week's end the relief situation in Ohio was still critical. Hundreds of tons of foodstuffs from Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. were poured into the State. President Roosevelt approved the expenditure of $1,248,991 for three new WPA projects. Cleveland saw some new money for relief in sight as its City Council approved the sale of $1,200,000 worth of bonds against delinquent taxes. But these were only stopgaps...
...Newell Dwight Hillis, Brooklyn, N. Y. Congregationalist, father of Marjorie (Live Alone and Like It) Hillis. Because of U. S. "dillydallying" over entering World War I, Dr. Hillis proposed that the tortoise be substituted for the eagle as national symbol. A great Liberty Loan speaker, Dr. Hillis peddled lurid atrocity stories, some of which the Christian Century printed. One of the Doctor's favorites: "When the syphilitic German has used a French or Belgian girl, he cuts off her breasts as a warning to the next German soldier...
Calling the events of the Nazi regime "more lurid than lasting," a German Club statement issued yesterday emphasized the real worth of German culture, and defined the policy and purpose of the Club in view of the present European situation...
...However, through the selection of insignia, procedure, songs, and topics for discussion, the emphasis of the Club meetings is on those things that are abiding, rather than on forces and events more lurid than lasting. The German Club seeks to recreate in America the spirit and fellowship of German student life before...