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Advertiser Chandler, a pious, scholarly young Manhattan lawyer and gentleman , farmer, was simply following the lead of his cousin. Representative James W. Wadsworth Jr., stanch Old Guardsman, who had already threatened to grow & sell illegal potatoes on his own ancestral acres in the Genesee Valley. Well did Republican Wadsworth know that New Dealers had had no hand in attaching the drastic, punitive Potato Control Act of 1935 as a rider to the AAAmendments (TIME, Sept. 9). But he also knew that the Act was a natural evolution of their crop restriction program, that whatever indignation could be stirred up against...
...Benes enjoys the particular friendship of new British Foreign Minister Sir Samuel Hoare and his newsorgan picked up in London a story peculiarly embarrassing to Austria's extremely pious Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg who simply could not let Austrians read it lest he become a national laughing stock...
...Austrians as managed to read it before police snatched all copies of Dr. Benes' paper off Vienna newsstands. For nearly three years Austrian statesmen have been so sure that Austrians would go Nazi if permitted to vote that the Austrian Government has suppressed all democratic suffrage, constituted what pious Chancellor Schuschnigg likes to think of as a Christian Dictatorship...
Fifth admonishes, "Honor thy father and mother." A young tree represents youth, its 613 leaves (in the form of the letter Yod which means God) the 613 good deeds a pious Jew must perform. In the background are the first words of the Kaddish, a prayer spoken daily for eleven months and annually thereafter for one's deceased parents...
Said the President of the Swiss Republic to his pious callers: ''You are showing the way out of the materialism and self-seeking which has brought the world to its present state of chaos. It is your conviction that is your strength. I have followed the opening of your work in Geneva and I feel more than ever convinced that it will make a real contribution towards reconciling the nations...