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...race against whom all had been done that could be done short of mass murder, the Berlin Zwoljuhrblatt screamed: "Woe to the Jews if another helper is paid or incited by them and raises his murderous hand against a German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Woe to the Jews! | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Girls On Probation" definitely does not live up to its advertisements, which depict a girl of decidedly sensuous cast smoking a cigarette in the approved seductive manner. It is a routine tale of woe, in which the heroine is framed by endless coincidences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/21/1938 | See Source »

...social forces are not sufficiently powerful to keep the waiverer in line. In these countries where the improved modern methods of appealing to the mob coupled with the actual use of force have been successful, an approach to homogeneity has been attained. Here is one world, and woe to the man who does not conform to it in thought as well as in action. I hardly need give illustrations. We are all too familiar with them, --the news from Russia and Germany almost daily illustrates the intellectual tyranny of a totalitarian state. There can be little room, indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text Of President's Baccalaureate Address | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...likelihood, a wave of resentment against John Lewis and his group. When a country topples slowly into economic chaos no one thinks to improve his condition by refusing to work. Work and the chance to earn an honest living appear as the greatest benefits to mankind and woe to him who willfully throws up this Godsend to baggle for more money or shorter hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN LEWIS LOOKS AHEAD | 5/27/1937 | See Source »

Schorr who sang the woe of the ghostly captain with such feeling one could well believe he was doomed to sweep across the seas forever until a girl's love would win him rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Met's Progress | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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