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...smiled and applauded. Neurologist Stewart Paton stared, smiled and applauded. Geneticist Charles Benedict Davenport stared, smiled and applauded. Likewise did four dozen other specially invited guests at the performances of a 19-month old boy known as Johnny. They watched the youngster critically as he climbed up a steep plank to get a banana, as he dropped down from a 5-ft. perch (see cut, p. 18), as he got around on roller skates, as he picked out familiar objects from a pile of hells, pencils, spoons and other miscellany-all the while gibbling &; gabbling with his august audience. Johnny...
...elsewhere it was in ruins. And it was the sacred mission of the Conservative Party to save Great Britain at all costs from a proletarian dictatorship. Disregarding the obvious point that at the present this shot is aimed at a dummy, since the Labour Party officially adopted the same plank for its platform, one wonders whether or not the Tories might not at some later date feel themselves forced into the doubtlessly uncomfortable position of having to meet the menace of a Labour will-to-power with a "National" Dictatorship of their own. Would the British love of parliamentarism...
...Party's "primary election plank'' Leader Hitler announced last week, "Our Honor Above All." The Party's campaign slogan, he said, would be, "We simply refuse to be treated as a second-class nation...
...this has been a recognized plank of Fascist policy since that party came to the fore, and its adoption by the N.R.A. will be an unpleasant piece of plagiarism. For these boards cannot possibly discover violations of code agreements unless apprised of them by the labor of each industry: the job of policing would be entirely too vast, and the violations could be too easily veiled. It is asking a great deal of Labor, which contrary to silly reports of selfishness, has not been able, in the larger industries, to raise its individual weekly wages above the regular depression...
...Since Plank No. 16 is so much a part of the Platform that it can scarcely be torn out with safety, Chancellor Hitler soothed his Storm Troops with a statement issued by Chief Adjutant Rudolf Hess. "Strong measures will be taken if misguided efforts to boycott department stores do not cease," declared Chief Adjutant Hess, "but the Party's attitude toward department stores remains unchanged in principle. Its solution will follow in due course. In view of the Government's fight against unemployment, it is undesirable to undertake at the present time anything calculated to ruin stores which...