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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since every prominent Nazi must have his thundering Mercedes, every Storm Troop leader must have at the least his shiny motorcycle, and since German taxpayers take care of the cost, Adolf Hitler rightly feels that he has hit on a wholly original and potent weapon for subjugating unemployment. But Der führer's heart- that Great Heart so much publicized in the Reich-yearns to give little cars to little men such as he once was. Facing the silk-hatted Corps Diplomatique almost defiantly, Herr Hitler fairly roared: "We are going to solve the problem of the cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Act of State | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...National Student League, instead of "shouting for liberalism," condemns this type of it as a class weapon for the furthering of fascism. We favor freedom of speech for those who further the interests of the students and the working class. Professor Gini does not come under this category, as the condition of the universities and the working class in Italy and Germany proves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shallow Liberalism | 2/21/1935 | See Source »

Well-meaning though the Legion of Decency may be, like all other prohibitive institutions it places too great a weapon in the hands of prejudice. After all that had been said of the O'Casey play it seems rather a pity that one man, and it really was one man, should have been able to prevail over the desires of a considerable, intelligent population. Boston's prohibitors permit Minsky to run without let while they ban Strange Interlude and Within the Gates. They cavil at Rabelais and Joyce while smiling tolerantly (and probably reading themselves) Smokehouse Monthly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1935 | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...gall bladder. The leader of the Church's counterattack, fat, sloe-eyed Archbishop Pascual Diaz, sat grimly in the Archiepiscopal Palace in Mexico City. While the Government persecuted his flock, the Primate of All Mexico, who is a pure Jalisco Indian, held in reserve one dread (to Catholics) weapon, the awful word of excommunication, which he may pronounce, the Pope may confirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Ossy, Ossy, Boneheads | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...course, price control can be used as a weapon of monopoly. It has frequently been so used, and that use of it was the very reason for the Antitrust Acts themselves. But that was price control downward in an effort to destroy competition. . . . NRA price stabilizations were all for exactly the reverse purpose-to prevent cut-throat and monopolistic price slashing, to maintain small industry, to continue employment, to abolish economic murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Dying Eagle | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

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