Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberty Bell is silent and mute With a crack in its side from its pealing...
...Germany during the last five years and which sank to new depths in the organized frenzies of the last few days. . . . If you saw a gang of cowardly ruffians set upon a helpless man in a public street and proceed to beat him, you wouldn't long remain silent. If you saw a fanatical mob pillage and burn a church or a synagogue you wouldn't long remain silent. If you saw a brutal band drive helpless families from their own homes, you would speak out, and promptly...
...bundled monks out of their monasteries, arrested and harried the lower clergy. After the sack, Cardinal Innitzer (whom the U. S. Catholic hierarchy at its recent annual meeting praised as a "valiant spokesman") issued a statement denying that he had ever attacked Adolf Hitler, or that he had been silent at the accession of Sudetenland, and declaring: "I expressed my thanks to the Führer and ordered thanksgiving services and the ringing of bells for the whole of the Ostmark. I protest against the mortifying reproach that I placed myself in deliberate opposition to the Führer...
...Silent since then, Cardinal Innitzer last week was once more reported in "protective custody," a plight in which presumably he had been for a month. The reporter of this news was an anonymous broadcaster from the Vatican radio station, speaking in English. The Cardinal, he said, had quietly requested that "several trustworthy persons who would leave Austria shortly" be brought to his palace, to behold the unrepaired damage done by the Nazis...
...addition to being the outstanding star in modern westerns, Autry is largely responsible for their survival. Once the backbone of the industry, westerns four years ago were a drug on the market. The only change in them since silent days had been the popping of revolvers. Since the hero never got shot, this noise had ceased to excite their audiences...