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...Nazi Reichstag Deputy. If Old God Wotan's most prominent living disciple. General Erich Ludendorff, was present he went unnoticed. The big issue promptly became Paragraph 24 of the Nazi Constitution which explicitly makes Christianity the religion of Brownshirts. This was disposed of amid roars of ap proval when Keynoter Gericke cried : "Paragraph 24 is something for our Party itself to interpret ! . . . We will go further entirely in the Nazi spirit!" The way to un-Jew the Bible, a majority of Nazi speakers made plain, is to reject the dogma of sin and, from this, reject the concept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Soul Throbs | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

Resourceful Captain Macnamara had another idea. With Admiral Boyle's ap proval, wireless summoned full speed out from Portsmouth seven destroyers. Resting from their jumping, the Nelson's crew leaned over the taffrail and cheered themselves hoarse while the seven little boats skidded at 35 knots, like terriers around a cow, closer and closer to the great ship in an effort to sweep the mud away with their wash. They made tremendous waves but the only result was to swing the Nelson still more firmly on the bank and completely wreck the pontoon bridge between Portsmouth and Gosport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jumping Jacks | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...therefore obliged," wrote President Coolidge last week, reverting, after some 5,500 more emphatic words, to the formal executive monotone, "to return Senate Bill 3555 . . . without my ap-proval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Fee, Fie, Foe, Farmers | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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