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...Secretary of Commerce, disappeared. Sole memento of him was the White House parrot who kept saying "The Depression is over! The Depression is over!" In the uncanny way the little polly repeated Julius' slogan, and with that beak of his, Mr. Wintergreen was almost tempted to believe in reincarna tion...
...victory." concluded Haranguer Hitler. "Comrades, we march into 1932 as fighters so that we may leave it as victors! . . . Long live our ever beloved German people! . . . On to victory like knights without fear or blame we will charge?through Hell, Death and Damna-tion...
...afternoon to thrill the crowds at the Yale-Chicago football game before heading east for Akron. Next day Rear Admiral George C. Day, chief of the Navy Board of Inspection & Survey, recommended that the Navy accept the airship. If Secretary of Navy Charles Francis Adams approves his recommenda- tion, preliminary work may begin...
Last September President Hoover turned down the spigot on U. S. immigra- tion to conserve U. S. jobs for U. S. residents. Consuls were instructed to refuse passport visas to aliens who on arrival were likely to become public charges. If a would-be immigrant boasted of work awaiting him in the U. S., he was barred under the contract labor provision of the Immigration code. As a result of the President's orders, the Department of Labor last week announced that immigration for fiscal 1931 had dwindled to a trickle below the 100.000 mark for the first time...
...about Alfred Emanuel Smith, long-time Hearst foe: "Any Democrat nominated [for President in 1932] in opposition to the wishes of Smith will be defeated. Smith is the head of the Democratic party in America. There is only one real live issue before the people and that is Prohibi- tion. Prohibition of itself isn't enough, but the corruption it has encouraged among our police is the outrage...