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...going to vote "Ja." To set all Germany an example of speed, General Goring startlingly dispensed with even the Nazi anthem, the "Horst Wessel Song" (see col. 1). In crisp, commanding sentences, shouted in parade ground tones, Speaker Goring "requested" the Deputies to leap to their feet in unison when they wished to signify approval. Popping up and down like a roomful of marionets, the Reichstag transacted all business of the week in seven and a half minutes flat, re-elected Speaker Goring, elected three Vice Presidents, empowered Speaker Goring to appoint all committees and adjourned sine die, subject...
Other missionaries got messages too. In a snug hacienda in Caracas, Venezuela, Presbyterian Dorothy Parnell got "from mother and father and Sister Harriet" this message: "Five minutes after you have heard this message read Hebrews 13:20-21. We will read it in unison with you though the seas roll between us." The Parnells read...
...Roman Catholic church in Queens Village, N. Y. one night last week twinkled 1,000 wax tapers, clutched by 500 devout Catholic husbands, 500 devout Catholic wives. In solemn unison 1,000 lips moved over the words...
...Britons left the White House and they did not leave with a smile. "There is no statement," Sir Frederick and Sir Ronald snapped in unison to newshawks. Few days later President Roosevelt announced that Britain would pay 7,500,000 U. S. dollars as a "token" on Dec. 15 in- stead of the $117,000,000 due. and that the negotiations would be abandoned until a more "propitious time...
...audience he made Beethoven all-sufficient-with the clarity of his phrasing, the prismatic shading of his tone color, the way in the second, slow movement he carried on a dialog with the orchestra, pleading tenderly with the strings which had set themselves sternly in unison against...