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What form this abandonment would take was something to be threshed out in the inner councils of the Chungking Government. One faction insisted that China must turn to Russia. In that case China would have to squelch her own Right...
Whose Iron? Adolf Hitler was putting the finishing touches to Mein Kampf in 1925 when the "Soldiers of Archangel Michael" (later the Iron Guard) was founded in Rumania. In recent years every effort by Carol to squelch the Guard - and over 2,000 youths of the Guard were executed last year by royal decree in a blood purge - has been quietly blocked by the Führer. Here was a ready-made fifth column and Hitler was not going to let it be wiped out. The Iron Guardists, nearly all fanatical Rumanian patriots of Sinn Fein recklessness, were...
Parliament howled long & loud last month when it first got wind of this transaction. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, to silence the outcry, promised to see what could be done to squelch the deal. Sir John, reporting to Parliament last week, produced no squelcher. Banking ethics, said he, require that a customer's demand for his money be honored without question...
Thereupon Banker Giannini himself took a bold propagandistic step. To squelch SEC charges that he took more money from his empire than he admitted, A. P. (who has lately been closeted with cunning Pressagent Edward L. Bernays) released a complete statement of his net worth, including cash, securities, salary, insurance. Instead of the millions most people would have guessed, it totaled only...
...steps immediately taken, an outburst of public indignation will surely result. Massachusetts, for example, saw in 1937 a 40 per cent increase of its evening automobile accidents, with increases in arrests for drunkenness corresponding. Figures for 1938 show that the condition is becoming worse. If prohibition failed to squelch Mr. Barleycorn, surely repeal has sent him off on one whopper of a bender...