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...German streets in which fake air bombs are planted, exploding smoke bombs to simulate gas bombs, starting controlled fires resembling those ignited by Thermite bombs,* sending stretcher-bearers to bandage "wounded" Germans and handing gas masks around the Fatherland. Therefore last week the German people were among the ripest in the world for the surprise message suddenly delivered in Berlin by Colonel Lindbergh and promptly slapped by Chancellor Hitler onto the front page of his personal newsorgan Der Volkische Beobachter ("The Popular Observer"). Observed Charles Augustus Lindbergh, addressing a bounteous luncheon of the Aero Club...
Ontario farmers have lately been saving their rottenest eggs, their ripest tomatoes for Conservative Premier George Henry. Campaigning spunkily in his sand-colored sedan he has braved ugly crowds throughout the province, often getting an egg in the neck or a tomato broadside-on and never running for cover. Obviously his Conservative Government, returned to power in 1929 and on the defensive all through Depression, was in a hopeless fix. The Liberals had not won Ontario for 29 years but they were going to win now with a young dirt farmer named Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn as their New Dealer...
That China's 400 earthbound millions may surge into Communism has frequently been predicted. But what if China's millions should turn to Jesus Christ? Last week an expert Christian wrote: "China is the ripest evangelistic field in the world at the present time...
...richest, the ripest, the most inspiring and the fruitiest group of all, was the group of serious students who were social about it." That was the answer of a University of Pennsylvania 1929 graduate-Samuel Lipshutz...
...mind. Seven years, spent in a sanitarium in the Swiss Mountains-what can you expect of such an absurd period in a man's life? But that is what the book is written around, a wonderful book, full of contemplative thought, of dialectic discussion, of wisdom. It is the ripest of the author's works, it is his most German work. It may well be questioned whether it will ever be worthwhile to translate it-so much of art in language can hardly be transcribed into a foreign tongue. And yet it would be interesting to see how it would...