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Ethel Ames Sagen...
...sermon denouncing the Nazi regime and philosophy. The Gestapo came at once to arrest the bishop, but he managed to flee to Switzerland. However, his sermon had been printed, and the villagers were keeping copies of it carefully hidden. Some of them showed it to us, warning us "nicht sagen...
...effect. "If I were to distribute poverty justly, we would all surely remain poor," he insisted. "It seemed to be more important to overcome poverty than to distribute it." U.S. General Lucius Clay backed him, and throughout a grim winter of rising prices and shortages, Erhard kept up Seelenmas-sagen (soul massages), in the form of radio speeches and newspaper articles. Over and over he predicted: "Prices will start to drop in the spring." Panic buying trailed off, production rose and prices did fall...
...couldn't exist without Sagen-dorph and his staff, "may forecast that a particular day will be 'warm.' He never says how warm it will be ... I'm not sure our definitions would be accepted in official weather circles. Abe defines rain as any precipitation which will spatter off a bald man's head. Snow means you can see a cat's tracks across the barn roof. These are meaningful definitions, but the specialists down at the Weather Bureau would probably have to hold their sides to keep from laughing." Funny, though, says Sagen...
...Almanac's first 54 years its proprietor was Robert Bailey Thomas, a Massachusetts stationer. For its last five, it has belonged to 45-year-old Robb Sagen-dorph, a tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Harvardman ('22) who lives rustically at Dublin, N.H. During the war, while he worked for the Office of Censorship, he kept his hardy perennial going by working on it nights and Sundays. It was worth his while: the 1946 print order is for 450,000 copies, almost double its previous printing...