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...seems to me that the NSL Secretary deliberately used his University connection as a shield to ward off any serious consequences that he might have had to face as a result of his cheap publicity stunt. In so doing he has dragged the rest of the University into the mud after...
...dead silence the King delivered his speech. Best came last: "The upward climb of the Italian nation . . . will not be interrupted because the Italian people, as united and solid around the shield of my house and around the sign of the Roman Fasces as never before, deserves and will have an even greater destiny." Most significant came first: "The new duties of the State cannot but lead to transformations in the constitutional order, which the Italian people have already signified they will willingly accept...
...orders with his arm. A workman sprang to a windlass operating one of the furnace doors. Eight others manned the 20-ft. handle of a big ladle, hanging from an overhead monorail. By clenching a peg between his teeth, the '"front" man kept in place a rectangular face-shield. Above the din the carrier truck screeched on the overhead rail as the ladle was trundled up to the furnace. The door swung open to a blinding glare from the inferno inside. The ladle went in. came out full to the brim with a dazzling cargo which dripped down...
...founder of the House of Rothschild was 'Mayer Amschel, son of Amschel Moses Bauer. He was a dealer in coins, curios and jewels. The earliest Rothschilds lived in a double house in Frankfort's Jew Street. They took their name from a red shield which hung outside their part of the house. On the same street, behind the sign of a ship, lived the ancestors of the late great Jacob Schiff whose grandson was last week engaged to a daughter of the great gentile banking house of Baker (see p. 60). The Rothschild invention of branch banking...
...would be a wonderful thing if the President and Colonel Lindbergh would get together, because Lindbergh is so well informed in such matters. The thing I was getting at was that people shouldn't get the idea that Colonel Lindbergh was acting as a shield for the company he represents and that he'd been paid for that...