Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Europe's newest dictator, King Carol II, squeezed the last squealing drop of press freedom from Rumania last week. That it was an easy thing to do, he knew. The last anti-Fascist Italian editor has long since been silenced. Few Germans today ever see an anti-Nazi publication. A smattering of troublesome pamphlets is still smuggled in the bottom of wheat barges ascending the Rhine from Holland, and such journals as the inflammatory bi-monthly Die Schiffart (Shipping) are printed in New York, hidden in the cargoes of German ships by U. S. longshoremen and sneaked into Germany...
...Duskin, their colleague, under a 36 to 60-year sentence for borrowing 850,000 from his former clients, but on parole since last July, had been granted permission by Governor Bibb Graves to fly to Manhattan unguarded for the broadcast. The keynote of his speech: "The most important thing in life is freedom. Freedom to get out under the blue sky ... to look up at the stars at night...
...gave her the creeps. And Polish noblemen disliked still more the prospect of being freed by Napoleon at the expense of his freeing their serfs. But neither of these obstacles ruffled Rasonski's cool-headed obsequiousness toward the old Count nor his heavy gallantry toward Dzjunka. Only one thing disturbed his calculations: he had really fallen in love with Dzjunka...
...most disturbing thing about this new Administration declaration of policy, is not the rapid, inconsistent reversals in ideas and theories. The country is, or should be, used to that by now. The implications, however, of Mr. Roosevelt's various statements about high or low prices should be, go a good deal deeper. They reveal that the President believes the federal government should have ultimate authority over all prices, so that eventually Washington will be able to set prices at the levels it thinks proper. And when all the factors that go into the making of prices are considered, it rapidly...
This is a noble ambition and a good thing. But it remains to be seen whether Freshmen will pay particular attention to the newly appointed Counselor. This will depend largely on the Counselor. He will have to use a maximum of care not to frighten sensitive Yardlings by appearing to be another banana skin on the royal road to history. He must be a father-confessor. He must be a patron saint. He must instruct his brood in what to read without letting them guess that it is assigned, and must conduct a serious class in an atmosphere...