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...person would construe my remarks to mean that Mr. Hoover personally was buying up Southern delegates . . . they are being rounded up by his political friends in the manner that politicians usually round up Negro and poor white Republicans in the solid South. . . . As to how that is done, I refer to Bascom Slemp and Perry Howard, who did valiant work on Mr. Hoover's behalf prior to the 1928 Republican convention...
...refer to Labor's opposition to the former Governor of Indiana because of his use of militia in strikes. The important thing, however, is not that Governor McNutt called out militia; many Governors do that. The important thing is that he invented a new form of executive tyranny; namely, the perpetuation of military law long after the emergency for which the troops were called out was over, and almost all of them had been sent home. This kind of law Governor McNutt maintained for at least two years in Sullivan County, Ind. and for some six to eight months...
...Newspaper proprietors perhaps remembered the case of one enterprising journalist who found himself without a job after he had published a picture of Il Duce standing beside Italo Balbo, now Governor General of Libya. Governor Balbo looked years younger than Dictator Mussolini. Editors in Italy do not refer to Il Duce as a grandfather; they understand that the picture of Signor Mussolini slipping gracefully into old age is not for Fascist consumption. Featured instead is the fact that Il Duce pilots his own plane, rides horseback, swims, skis, can lead his militiamen in a half-mile trot or a goose...
Since the Axis treaty, Italians refer to Adolf Hitler as La Voce del Padrone ("The Master's Voice"), the Victor phonograph trademark whose secondary meaning is understood by everyone. Too many Gestapo men are around to mention the word "Hitler or "Adolf," but when Italians say "We were better off under our own padrone," the inference is that they believe Il Duce to have lost his hold on Italy and that the Führer is really the boss...
Last week the Nazis took another step and not only shortened the Führer's title but dropped his name. Hereafter Herr Hitler will be known simply as The Leader, will sign his name that way and all newspapers, documents and speakers must refer to him only by those two words. Official explanation for the change: "The title of Chancellor gave Hitler an air of being a functionary or politician, whereas he is the beloved leader of his people...