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...several hours the crowd had listened to denunciations of Jews, liberals and radicals; it had heard promises of bigger and better meetings along this line; it had gazed at, read and reread a huge banner in the front of the hall which bore the inscription "German People in America! Awake!" It had feasted itself into a stupor on Hitler's gospel of hate, on the message of the most reactionary, finance-dominated regime in history...
Last February when the first crisis of the Stavisky case had Frenchmen rioting in the streets, Gaston Doumergue picked white-chinned old Henry Cheron for his Minister of Justice with the reputed remark, "He is a funny old bore, but at least he is absolutely honest...
...Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, the alarm went out that a naked lunatic was crawling through the fields beside a road, uttering low sounds. On signal police rushed the man, threw a blanket over his head, bore him off struggling to an ambulance. From beneath the blanket, as they drove toward an asylum, came a muffled but coherent voice. Timidly the prisoner explained that his clothes had been stolen while he was swimming, that he had promised to be home at dinner time, that he felt he should not break the engagement...
Upon the affidavit that bore the signature of Mrs. Vanderbilt's own mother. Mrs. Whitney relied most. Mrs. Laura Kilpatrick Morgan minced no words...
Home in the U. S., Helen Reid bore three children. One died of typhoid at the age of nine. Son Whitelaw is now at Yale, Son Ogden Jr., 9, in boarding school. Mrs. Reid slaved for women's suffrage until 1918 brought victory. Then her husband said to her: "You are freed from your suffrage work and responsibility. The Tribune needs you; come down to the office and work the paper's success out with...