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Five Malmo elephants also found a loyal friend in their trainer, Hugo Schmidt, former employee of the German-owned Carl Hagenbeck circus. When Sweden's Government ordered the elephants sold as alien property, Hugo promptly turned them loose on Malmo's streets. Running wild, they broke lampposts, smashed windows right and left and generally terrified the inhabitants until Schmidt got them rounded up. "Sweden," sobbed Trainer Schmidt as his beasts were taken in charge, "is making a great mistake. Those elephants love each other. If they are parted, they will...
Even amid national crises, the London Times could not bear to leave the ramparts of the King's English unmanned. Last week the Times fired away at the word personnel, "this alien collective" from across the Channel. It doubted that "a more degrading, a more ill-favoured, synonym for two or more members of the human race has . . . been coined...
...faith of ascetic, heretic-burning John Calvin was stern, hard and alien to a boisterous young country in a nature-taming age. Calvinism insisted on 1) the total depravity of man, 2) a God who, for His own good reasons, irrevocably divided all mankind into the Elect and the Damned, 3) strict "blue laws...
...Pegler portrait of the "all-powerful" labor leader. Men in the Congress and out of it are attempting to control a social organism of which they know little and understand almost nothing. The problem is bigger than the labor problem. These men who still regard labor organizations as something alien and threatening in our society are fanning fires that will some day get out of control. They are attempting to cripple the organizations that not only serve to give back to the minimized industrial worker his dignity and human assertiveness, but act as a balance wheel to the growing tendency...
...delegates rushed through unanimous approval of their Social Service Committee report without realizing it contained the statement that ". . . segregation of believers . . . into racial or class churches is a denial of the New Testament affirmation of the equality of all believers at the foot of the Cross, and alien to the spirit of Christ, the Head of the church...