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...famed Stahlhelm (Steel Helmets), organization of World War veterans headed by Labor Minister Franz Seldte, retired soda water manufacturer. The 1,000,000 steel helmet troopers, whom Adolf Hitler once barred from joining his Storm detachments, were told that they must join the brownshirt Storm Battalions and obey hereafter only Chancellor Hitler. Similarly dissolved and merged were the 10,000 green-shirted youths organized by Nationalist Leader Dr. Alfred Hugenberg as his party's "Battle Ring...
...Committee's investigation of J. P. Morgan & Co. was transferred to hoarder-hunting. Investigators marched in upon suspects, flashed their badges, read the President's proclamation aloud, ordered them to disgorge. Of the first 1,838 queried, 95 with gold hoards of $660,601 flatly refused to obey, defied the Government to prosecute. Their names were promptly delivered to the Department of Justice's criminal division. Declared "General" Cummings: "I have no patience with people who follow a course which in war time would class them as slackers. If I have to make an example of some...
...father's business. Jennie goes with him, waits a long time before getting up courage to tell him about her daughter. This has no final effect on their relationship but the pressure of his family against it does. Lester resigns from his father's firm rather than obey his father's orders to dismiss his mistress. He takes Jennie abroad. When Jennie finds out what he has done, she leaves him, goes back to Chicago, builds up a life around her daughter and scraps of news about her lover. He sees her twice more: once when Jennie...
...admitted to the house; they welcomed her, treated her like one of themselves-all except one woman who had seen her mother raped by foreign soldiers. The Lins begged their visitor to excuse this relative's prejudice. Admitted to their hospitality, Nora Waln also had to obey their rules. After being presented to Kuei-tzu (Lady of First Authority in the House of Exile) she was forbidden to appear again until "sufficiently civilized" to hear and speak for herself; all members of the family were forbidden to speak to her again in any language except Chinese. Consequently she soon...
...Cage when Lloyd's covered both him and his animals, Beatty has never paid a cent for life insurance. With a whip, a kitchen chair, a revolver loaded with blanks, he persuades his refractory felines to sit on pedestals, cower, roll over. With fangy reluctance they obey...