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...other was an electric gadget which, by means of red and green lights, told him how each member of each chamber downstairs voted. Senator Long may be mocked as a cheap demagog by the nation-at-large and his popularity with Louisiana voters may be on the wane, but at Baton Rouge he is still an autocrat. In a fashion which would have won instinctive approval from Benito Mussolini, he began to get things done...
...already killed von Papen's speech out of second editions of German papers which had managed to rush it into their first, and Roarer Göing had as much as seconded von Papen in a speech admitting that enthusiasm for Naziism was some what on the wane. Amid this Cabinet broil Herr Hitler showed himself the Little Man. He begged everyone please to be friends and patched up a tea party in the Ministry of Propaganda at which Dr. Goebbels and Lieut.-Colonel von Papen sipped at each other with wolfish smiles while the world in general...
Significant fact about the primary was that none of the candidates was Long-backed, all attacking or refusing affiliation with the Kingfish now that his influence as Louisiana boss is on the wane...
...sorry for Mr. Baldwin; for the man is obviously sincere in his plea for the maintenance of traditional forms; and there can be but little doubt that it is a losing battle that he is waging. The forces of democracy and constitutionalism are very plainly on the wane in every country in the world. It is a vast movement that swings away from an ideal that has dominated European life since the Council of Constance, the idea of liberty as the most worthwhile and important goal toward which mankind should struggle. Only temporarily interrupted by the triumph of the forces...
...basis of reciprocal agreements with other nations. The immediate importance of this request is whether or not it will cause dissension among the leaders in Congress. The Democratic Party has long favored a reduction of the tariff, and, although their agitation for lower schedules has been on the wane, it is extremely doubtful that any increase would be tolerated. The Senate, moreover, has been rather balky for the last few weeks, and has passed a bill restoring veteran's pensions and salaries to the government officials in spite of a threatened veto. If there is any power of which...