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...Lately Leftist members have urged the Federation to embrace industrial unionism completely by throwing its ranks open to charwomen, janitors, window-washers. Foreseeing trouble over that proposal, A. F. of T.'s conservative President Raymond Lowry resigned two months ago, left his increasingly pink union membership a free rein...
While Titus' infatuation with Berenice, the Jewish princess, lasted, Josephus and his fellows made hay. But the affair came to an end, and to win back his waning popularity, Titus gave freer rein to the antiSemites. Josephus' wife and son left him; his other son (by an earlier marriage) died, partly through his neglect. He went back to Judea, visited the desolate site of what had once been Jerusalem, saw how vexed the land was by its Roman conquerors, by a dangerous new sect called Minaeans or Christians, by the iron orthodoxy of the Jewish doctors...
...Libya by the "jealous" Dictator, has been in Rome repeatedly since the outset of the war and on warplane shopping trips to France to strengthen Italy's air arm. As sanctions applied by the League of Nations (with Britain applying the spurs and France tugging on the check rein) came into effect this week, Italy was so far from irresolute or bluffing that the greatest of her surviving World War commanders. Field Marshal Pietro Badoglio, was being sent to Africa to redouble the offensive on all fronts...
...Commerce Codes; Roosevelt continued with his National Recovery Administration. Hoover began with his restrictive high tariffs; Roosevelt continued with his absurd Agricultural Administration. Both Presidents, if they had deliberately set out to intensify the depression, to impoverish the country, to keep people out of work, and to give free rein to all the formerly illegal, antisocial, restrictive, monopolistic practices, could not have designed more effective programs to secure this effect...
...unconscious desire to give rein to the primitive instinct, not only without punishment but even with reward, furthers in a great measure the preparedness...