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...propaganda army from the Occupied Zone. For three days hatless, raincoated members of the pro-Nazi National Popular Assembly stayed in the new French capital breathing dire but incoherent threats until they were bounced out by the Garde Mobile. Since France already is so completely under Germany's thumb that an estimated 90% of her industrial production goes to the Third Reich, "collaboration" could mean only one thing-acquiescence to the passage of German troops to Spain and Africa, permitting Germany to use France's African colonies as military bases for a western Mediterranean campaign...
Stocks also came near hitting new lows in relation to yields and earnings. Ever since a few brokers swapped stocks beneath a Manhattan buttonwood tree, the rule-of-thumb way to value a stock was to multiply its profits by ten. Stable earners (like tobacco manufacturers, food companies, utilities, etc.) might be worth up to 20 times earnings. But today many stocks sell at four, three, or two times earnings. Examples...
...situation stands today, there are four separate groups in control. At the top is the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, having the final say in all matters, yet with only three undergraduate representatives. Then there is the lethargic Undergraduate Athletic Council comprised entirely of students, under the thumb of the H. A. A. and powerless to serve as more than an advisory board to the senior committee. Finally there are two organizations regulating House sports. The addition of still committee to this hierarchy man seem the opposite of what is called for. But actually none of the four...
...should have said Hitler is a god. It does not matter whether he is a good or bad god, because he got into the wrong sphere. He does not know it yet, but he will know it, when he-some day in the not far future-sits sucking his thumb on some lonely island...
...long paddle, began carefully covering it with colored pictures of angular, oblong-bodied gods and animals. Their pigment, which they lifted in handfuls from five different bowls beside them, was powdered rock and charcoal-white, blue, yellow, black and red. Trickling each handful in a fine stream between thumb and forefinger, they drew lines and wedge-shaped patches as accurately as draughtsmen, pinched off a dot or a spot of color here & there as featly as if they were salting the tail of a bird. It was beautiful. It was also impressive...