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...Manuel 3G, the first speaker, discussed "Hitler's Rise to Power" from an historical view. He was quite vehement in expressing the opinion that the mistreatment of the Jews in Germany by the Hitler regime was merely an age old vent; that it was really a symbol of the economic struggle which was going on in Germany today, as well as in every country in the world. He said that the Nazi regime really was decreed in the summer of 1932, when Von Papen, who was then in power, attempted to seize the power of the Prussian state. When Sevening...
...himself, a graduate and fifteen years out of college. He is sitting in a room whose floors are a hell of rubbish, and whose walls are decorated with photographs in execrable taste. Two small children are at his feet, scrawling on the floor with large blue pencils, and giving vent, periodically, to low, retching noises. From some far place, the howling of another child penetrates. The Vagabond is disconsolate, and does not realize the significance of the scene...
...easiest way to do this is to build up a solid bureaucracy. In order to be this it was necessary to remove all the Jews now holding office, and to fill the vacant places with loyal supporters. Secondly, Hitler was forced at the outset, to give vent to the personal prejudices of his colleagues and the Nazi rank-and-file. Again, the new German dictator is a sufficiently astute politician to recognize that to hold power he must have constantly before the people a live issue, a body of emotional material to capitalize into votes. Demagogues live on popular hysteria...
...uninterrupted years in steady accumulation and assimilation of the ground-work of the law. That process of laying the foundations is usually felt to be interesting though hard; but it is generally considered exceedingly irksome by the third year. A thesis course would furnish at least a partial vent to this feeling of heavy monotony...
...College and to collecting, but there is need of more unity. It is doubtful in the present state of lassitude whether this will occur, but unless the Society for Contemporary Art takes on a new lease of life, it is difficult to justify its existence except as a vent for the executive urge of its officers...