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...desired; 2) an air force equal to that of any power "within air range" (i. e. equal to France's); 3) preparations for the conversion of all factories to war purposes; 4) coordination of the entire national defense. Bumbling Stanley Baldwin, leader of the Conservative Party, was milder, but even he admitted that strengthening Britain's armaments was no improbability. He attempted to soften the news by blaming everything on the U. S. : "There was no more reeling blow struck at that new attempt in Europe [the League of Nations] than when the American Congress refused to support...
...known good wines or liquors, never known that alcoholic drinks should be smelled, tasted, sipped, reflected upon, instead of being gulped with a prayer, never known when sherry, when burgundy, when port, when madeira should be served; a generation that has, in "drinking for drunkee," lost sight of the milder and nobler uses of alcohol...
...extent of U. S. spending made the budget "staggering." If he had chosen to view the Government's finances as tycoons viewed their companies' finances in 1929-even as President Hoover did, and he himself last summer-he might have composed the same facts into a far milder picture. Hitherto RFC outlays have never been treated as expenditures. The RFC secured cash by selling its debentures to the Treasury. The Treasury treated the transaction not as an expenditure but as an investment (which it nominally was). Thus the $2,045,000,000 passed...
...Spanknoebel was appointed head of the U. S. Nazis by Dr. Ley of the Nazi Foreign Propaganda Bureau in Hamburg. Mounting foreign protests, and the dismal failure of Nazi propaganda in foreign countries caused the Propaganda Bureau's official dissolution last July. Heinz Spanknoebel became leader of a milder organization of U. S. Teutons known as the "Friends of New Germany...
TIME did not mean to imply that the potato soup & whipped cream with which Chancellor Dollfuss bulwarked himself after a night of fasting & prayer was his usual breakfast. It is his favorite dish. On milder mornings he takes a standard Wiener Frühstück-coffee with whipped cream, crescent rolls (Kipfel), jam, one boiled egg.-ED. Ethical Bacardi Sirs...