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...true meaning of the word comrade. Among the Fascisti it means every man for himself." Copied from Pravda and reprinted by hundreds of provincial papers was a ribald, satanic poem by Comrade Vladimir Myakofski, entitled Cross and Champagne. Based on the undisputed facts that General Nobile dropped upon the North Polar region a large cross blessed by the Pope and carried a supply of champagne in which to toast this event, the poem soars into the very zenith of satiric sacrilege and "Champagne Popery."* Coldly, factually the Soviet press service Tass presented details on the basis of which cannibalism might...
...Latest Department of Commerce figures show for various denominations: Congregational...................................... 901,846 Protestant Episcopal ...........................1,858,966 Disciples of Christ.............................. 1,377,595 Northern Baptist Convention............ 1,290,438 Presbyterian......................................... 1,894,000 Methodist Episcopal Church, South..................................... 2,487,694 Methodist Episcopal Church, North...................................... 4,080,777 Jewish................................................... 4,087,357 American Baptist Association............... 117,858 Church of God, Holiness............................ 2,278 Free Church of God in Christ...
From Detroit, last week, sailed the motorship Lake Ormoc, carrying hospital equipment, an experimental laboratory, machine shop, refrigerating plant, provisions for two years. Its destination: Santarem, Brazil, a river port 100 miles north of Henry Ford's new 5,000,000 acre rubber plantation. In ten years, Mr. Ford's experts hope the plantation will yield 6,000,000,000 pounds of rubber annually, enough to make 1,000,000,000 Ford tires...
...with two oceans in her medicine bag . . . and you are . . . the cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From every corner they come. In the South, Clay Wingate, gentleman planter, gloated with boyish pride over boots and sabre, crisp new toys of war; but he brooded over their necessity. He knew the cause wasn't slavery, "that stale red-herring of Yankee knavery"; he knew...
...served by one old couple and their daughter. Out of sheer indifference he allows himself to be seduced by the daughter, whom he marries because he has got her with child. Irritated by these human complications, he escapes to the last island, a mere pile of rocks in the North. He finds solitude at last; hunger and blockades of snow. In a frenzy of lonely remorse he staggers to the icebound shore, but sees not a sail...