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America's greatest enemies are the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the American Legion. These are the organizations which, relying for emotional stimulus on outworn sentimentality, turn nationalism into a menace, and patriotism into a hypocritical mockery. These are the organizations which, parading under the banner of Americanism, are paying the way for an American Mussolini. One such was happily removed front the scene. But there are others on the horizon...
Said Dr. Giirtner: "We have substituted for the outworn maxim nulla poena sine lege ('no punishment unless law has been infringed') the more efficacious nulla crimen sine poena ('no crime left unpunished'), regardless of whether or not law has been infringed." "For the German judge as for the private citizen," continued the Minister of Justice, "the Nazi philosophy of life will be the guiding light. . . . Every clause in the penal code will have a 'danger zone.' Whoever moves in this sphere will do so at his own risk. . . . Wrong may exist, accordingly...
...this volume, also connote various spiritual attributes to the mind of men. Thus we expect hauteur in the King Charles spaniel, conrage in Scottish terrier, selfishness in the Pekingese, and gentleness in the St. Bornard, Man does not yet know the dog however, for two of his most outworn similes directly contradict each other: "as devoted as a dog" and "as treacherous as a dog." Knowledge can scarcely be said to exist where one finds such a contradiction, and the Dachshund or the Dalmatian, the Great, Dane, or the Alsatian, may well wag their respective tails...
Good taste has been too often in years past a blind to camouflage insidious indifference. Long enough has Williams been merely a 'gentleman's college,' for lack of any more vital purpose. None of these outworn epitaphs of an intellectual graveyard does the "Record" intend to extol simply for their own sakes. It is high time that to the weedy, run-down sod we apply not a roller, but a plowshare, in the hope of encouraging some new and greener vegetation...
...lories of high finance," he declared: "I am characterized as a revolutionary for raising my voice. . . . With the logic of a braggart I have been challenged to divest myself of my priestly vocation if I wish to participate in national affairs. Does our conception of Americanism . . . cling to the outworn theory of the divine right of kings by which is implied that the affairs of good government . . . must be surrendered into the hands of professional politicians?'' When General Johnson had heard the speech he exclaimed: "Pious flubdub...