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...comrades: In view of the monstrous and gory sentence that has been passed upon you, I feel that I am linked to you in unbounded loyalty. From this moment ... a struggle against the Government under which this has come to pass is our duty...
...were granted me time enough to complete my work, I would not fail to stamp it with the seal of that Time the understanding of which was this day so forcibly impressing itself upon me, and I would therein describe men?even should that give them the semblance of monstrous creatures?as occupying in Time a place far more considerable than the so restricted one allotted them in space, a place, on the contrary, extending boundlessly since, giant-like, reaching far back into the years, they touch simultaneously epochs of their lives?with countless intervening days between?so widely separated...
...Farm? Plaything of the General Electric staff is their monstrous x-ray farm on the laboratory roof. C. P. Haskins exposed grapefruit, orange, aster and cotton seeds to x-rays from two to 16 minutes. The grapefruit blossomed five weeks after planting. In nature first blossoming re quires five years' growth. On the contrary, sweet orange seed grew into a twisted, two-leaf plant. As grotesque was a sour orange plant with no green chlorophyll in its stem or leaves. The aster and cotton plants were gnarled dwarfs...
...immediately aware of the fact that the book is going to be extraordinarily interesting. Next comes the tragedy of a mutual misunderstanding and sordid politics--Wilson vs. the people, followed by the Big Red Scare, bombs, strikes, riots, supper-patriots, ending with an unparalleled burst of brutal intolerance and monstrous bigotry. There is an excellent account of the Harding scandals, which were revealed over such a long period that they are always vague. Then the Coolidge Prosperity Bandwagon gets rolling and sweeps all before its high pressure salesmanship and concentrated ballyton. The Florida boom is used as a preface...
...Prince of tiny Liechtenstein. This year Europe's register of kings, the famed Almanack de Gotha, has picked Franz Paul I for its frontispiece, displays him in hoary majesty. That from this old man the young republic of Czechoslovakia should plan to seize 75,000 acres seemed monstrous, infuriated the 10,000 Teuton Catholics who populate the Principality of Liechtenstein...