Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such sermons as this Pastor Niemoller preached Sunday after Sunday to Berlin's most fashionable congregation, and the fact that they stood and still stand by him is proof of how little liking German aristocrats have for the whole Nazi claptrap of neopaganism and "pure race." The issue of the Jews is a separate issue, and neither the Dahlem aristocrats nor their pastor have shown themselves pro-Semitic, if anything the reverse. In the fiery prisoner-pastor's words: "Dear brethren, the reason is easily given: the Jews brought the Christ of God to the Cross...
...HERE STAND I!, Willett, Clark...
...learned that Premier Mussolini, who is not anxious to have Germany swarm into Austria and thus jostle Italy, had inspired Dr. Schuschnigg's hurried visit to Herr Hitler. They reflected that in Jesuit-trained, rock-pious and astute Dr. Schuschnigg they have a Chancellor who could and would stand up persuasively to potent, mystic, unstable Dictator Hitler. News from London seemed to indicate chances brightening for a British-German-French-Italian understanding to uphold territorial Europe's status quo. Finally the Austrian people this week found Austrian Nazis wild with rage "at secret reports to them from Germany...
...lead 115%, eggs 73%, flour 69%. Listing these figures and many others in the December Atlantic Monthly, Princeton Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer commented: "That is inflation." Economist Kemmerer expects commodity prices to rise some 69% more and the cost of living to double. Nor is this a lone-wolf stand. Harvard's Professor Melvin Thomas Copeland made similar predictions last fall (TIME, Oct. 4). And 82% of the 2,560 ranking U. S. economists in the American Economic Association are on record that the present U. S. trend is toward dangerous inflation of money and credit...
...closed shop principle until prosperity returns, 2 not invoking the Wagner act in every case of suspected violation, 3 settling its differences and merging into a single huge organization, 4 accepting lower hourly wages in return for a guaranteed annual income, 5 abandoning for the time being their stand in refusing to work with building materials produced in non-union shops...