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...Month of Truce. Under the fateful Enabling Act (TIME, April 3. 1933) signed by Paul von Hindenburg after he made Adolf Hitler his Chancellor, the President's signature is no longer needed to validate even such Cabinet acts as that which last week created the Economic Tsar...
...sent some of his closest political henchmen to Death and two days after he had made an Economic Tsar, suddenly left Berlin by plane for the Bavarian Alps "to draw from Nature further inspiration." In Berlin his party henchmen declared blankly, "July will be a month of truce. Also no more Cabinet meetings are scheduled for July." An inspiration. widely published by the official Press, exhorted all unmarried men and women under 25 now working in Berlin to "Give up your jobs to married people! Leave the comforts of office and factory! Go to work on farms where...
...running the Legion. They had said mass, conferred at length. So effective had the boycott become that two potent cinemamen, Joseph I. Breen of Hollywood and Martin Quigley of Manhattan, were pleased to sit in at the Cincinnati porch conference in the hope of working out some sort of truce with the bishops...
...page editorial across its front page : SEATTLE SHALL NOT DIE! To the West Coast went Joseph P. Ryan, big, hard-boiled president of I. L. A. He permitted a temporary lifting of the embargo on Alaskan shipping out of Seattle because of a threatened food short age. But no truce was extended to the Grace Line, to Luckenbach, Dollar or Pan ama Pacific. Freight had to be carried by rail from San Francisco to Seattle and Portland. The Japanese-owned N. Y. K. Line, with Japanese crews, was permitted to navigate at will, but striking longshore men would not touch...
Perspiring with relief, Fascist squad leaders aloft called a truce with the antiFascists and all crawled to safety. By this time half the audience had fled. Jews considered that Sir Oswald in the windup of his speech touched a new high in British antiSemitism. He twitted the Conservative Party for "following the ideals of Disraeli, an Italian Jew,''- lambasted British Socialists (i. e. Laborites) for their "loyalty to Karl Marx, a German Jew" and polished off the Liberal Party by referring sarcastically to one of its Jewish leaders as "that staunch John Bull, Sir Herbert Samuel!" "Down with...