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...Spontaneous meadows spring in it; And I am but a glass between Un-walked in meadows, gold and green. The Author's most famed productions have never met the public eye, are fitter for private ears. Prolific parent of a Rabelaisian brood of limericks, bans mots, parodies, a troop of outrageous, robustious characters of fancy, Oliver St. John Gogarty is a doctor by trade (throat specialist). Now an Irish Senator, he was a bitter enemy of the Republicans, once faced a firing squad but escaped by swimming the Liffey. In gratitude he presented the river with a brace...
...State Department (TIME, Nov. 6, 13), it was announced from Berlin that Col. Edwin Emerson of New York would officially represent the Nazi Party in the U. S., a position which Spanknoebel had pretended to. Col. Emerson, oldtime newspaperman, wrote propaganda from Germany which was distributed to English-speaking troops during the War. Simultaneously another Hitlerite arrived in the U. S. He was Captain Georg Schmitt, who will tour the country consolidating the U. S. members of the Stahlhelm (German veterans organization) into a national society, will explain Naziism to German-American groups. On the side, Captain Schmitt hopes...
...Organizer of the Nazi Party, decided that the fumble was likely to be permanent. Ambitious, he called secretly upon the then Chancellor, sly Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, famed as "His Field Grey Eminence." Somehow or other Leader Hitler learned what Strasser and Schleicher were plotting, summoned Nazi storm troop leaders and Deputies from all over Germany to an historic Party meeting in Berlin. "Comrades," said the Leader gravely, "according to information in my possession Strasser told von Schleicher that he could deliver at least 30 Nazi members of the Reichstag to betray us and support the Schleicher Government...
Jewelers and novelty shops all over the Reich did a brisk business last week selling lapel pins enameled or embossed with foreign flags. In many cases the pins doubtless worked, saved their wearers from instant Nazi assault for failure to salute passing Storm Troop banners. But one day last week in the smoky Ruhr metropolis of Dusseldorf, inoffensive Roland Velz, a U. S. citizen and superintendent of a group of Germany's Woolworth stores, went walking, pinless, with his wife. Cheering Dusseldorfers stood massed along the curbstone six deep as a Storm Battalion marched past, grim-faced with blaring...
...International Labor Defense. Two of its New York lawyers had been sent to help defend the Negroes. They were ruled out of court fortnight ago on the grounds that the prisoners had not retained them. So high ran mob feeling against the lawyers that it took a troop of guardsmen to get them out of Alabama alive. The International Labor Defense last week made public a telegram sent to Governor Miller, holding Judge Henry B. Foster and Sheriff Shamblin directly responsible for the lynching, said they could prove that the mob had been incited by officials...