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Though only rich students can afford to belong to the Korps, all German university students have been mustered into a student organization under rigid Nazi control. In one case last April when a Nazi order transferred 5,000 students from Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelm University to the universities of Breslau and Königsberg, student discipline held fast. At Bonn and Heidelberg, however, young aristocrats began to have their doubts. They took to roaring student songs about Liberty and Freedom, songs they had voluntarily ceased to sing a few months before out of respect for the Nazi "Total State...
...Methodist women could not afford to pay, Bondman Bitting might be less bitter. But four trips to Los Angeles have convinced him otherwise. At its annual meeting last year, he discovered, the California Society reported total receipts of $87,281. Of that, $35,371 went to National Headquarters in Ohio. Thence, presumably, it went to China. For its U. S. bondholders, Mr. Bitting was informed on his last trip, the Society had nothing, would promise nothing...
...Astor III & wife got as far as Seattle on their month's honeymoon in the Pacific Northwest, secluded themselves in a hotel for two days, hitched their private car to an Eastbound express sped back to New York. Explained young Mr Astor, surrounded by 46 detectives: "We couldn't afford the car any longer...
...paper the Atlanta Constitution. In 1933 President Roosevelt offered Democrat Howell a fat diplomatic post which he declined on the ground he could serve party & nation better at home. Some of his friends said that the Constitution's publisher did not feel that his deflated pocketbook could afford the personal outlay required by such foreign service. Last week Mr. Howell changed his mind and decided to represent the U. S. abroad this summer, at Government expense...
Some of Author Faulkner's puns are better than others. Random sample: a horse which its owner could no longer afford to keep in the stall to which it was accustomed. In the wise-crackling dialog which makes up 90% of the book, even the heavy hero is allowed to say. when his mistress asks him if theirs was a case of love at first sight: "No, I had to look twice to believe my eyes...