Word: answers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Times have changed. When gruff, penetrating Herr Wolff barked, "You are the Fascist regime, we a democracy!", Il Duce bridled, made an answer of utmost significance : "I am a democrat [pause] that is, an authoritarian democrat."* As though he found his new-coined phrase especially apt, Il Duce reintroduced it during the argument again and again. "We are creating moral order, not police order," he added earnestly. "We are not reactionaries: quite the contrary." A little plaintively, knowing well that he will always be considered ruthless, the Dictator spoke at last of his penal islands (notorious as "Devil...
Said Schmeling: "Once before (in an early round) he hit me low and I tell him 'Be careful, Jack' but he don't answer me. He could not hurt me in the early rounds which I knew were his best. ... I fight my fight just as I want it and when my chance is coming I am fouled. ... I am disgusted to win like that...
...Millstadt, Ill., Chief B. D. Hirsch of the Volunteer Fire Department issued, for the second year, this order: "Members of the Millstadt Volunteer Fire Department will answer all alarms clad in their pajamas. The style of these garments will be left to the individual tastes of the various fire fighters with my recommendation for the selection of very gaudy colors, which will make identification simple even in the densest smoke...
...political affairs, did a remarkable about-face on Bishop Cannon's case. Declared Senator Caraway: "I see no occasion to insist on the Bishop testifying. The investigation is aimed at lobbying and not political matters. As he came at his own request, if he did not care to answer questions, he should be excused." Later Senator Caraway, shamefaced, left-about-faced: "I do not sustain Bishop Cannon for snapping his fingers at the Committee. A witness who goes before the committee withdraws at his own peril...
Rest of the week Pope Pius spent in privately considering, selecting documents for inclusion in the Vatican's White Book which will answer Britain's Blue Book on the Malta v. Holy See controversy (see above...