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...German children bring to their grateful parents. Hereafter the first child will mean a 15% income tax cut and each bouncing moppet thereafter will reduce the tax by an additional 20% until with the birth of their sixth Kind, total exemption from income tax will come to Vater und Mutter...
...Storm Troopers based their demand on the obscure stabbing of one of their district leaders by a Stahlhelm official in Pomerania. When Herr Hitler refused last week to dissolve the Stahl helm and accorded Col. Seldte a friendly audience Berlin Storm Troop leaders were stupid enough to mutter openly against Der Führer and arouse the suspicions of General Göring's Secret Police...
...dead beetle, it claimed sovereignty over an area 50 times as big as itself. Startled were Norwegians who had always quietly thought and quietly said that eastern Greenland was theirs. They began to remember Eric the Red's drowned vikings, the seals and the lie, began to mutter that Norway had been put upon...
...Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb. Even without his initial incentive of being a parson's son Dr. Bull's appetites are scandalously hearty. An increasing faction in New Winton, led by First Lady Mrs. Banning and puritanical Matthew Herring, find them an abomination, mutter also at the slapdash way Doc Bull treats his patients, public opinion, his Board of Health job. The doctor, an active, level-headed but choleric 60-year-old, has no very exalted view of medicine, speaks his candid mind on all occasions. ''An old horse doctor like me looks...
...that my father was insinuated into the vice-presidency, there started a reverberation which has an echo in the nomination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932. Many persons, politicians and non-politicians as well, mutter darkly that there is a misapprehension in the country as to just what relation Franklin is to T. R., and as people have actually congratulated me on the nomination of 'your brother,' perhaps there is some confusion and it is only fair that it should be cleared away. He is my father's fourth cousin once removed. . . . Politically, his branch...