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Cordell Hull thinks he can explain this to Congress and the public this year. Many politicos are less certain, and the Republican high command is sure Mr. Hull will be rolled over a barrel of imported Argentine beef. It was the farm bloc who wrote the Emergency Tariff of 1921, the Fordney-McCumber tariff boost of 1922, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. Republicans may again become "friends of the farmer." Last week Mr. Hull said he welcomed an investigation, if it were not made by chums of the Smoot-Hawley tariff...
...policy." Hardly was the Herald's ink dry on this story when Berlin correspondents found No. 2 Nazi Göring in conference at the Chancellery with Nazi No. 1 and other party bigwigs, as they drafted their usual New Year proclamations to the German people. "Leader, command," keynoted Marshal Göring's proclamation this week. "We follow...
...that which an earthquake excites in him. After the first rude awakening to a confused sensation of being thrown by a horse or buffeted by an unbeliever, each frightened Turk thought something deadly was happening to himself alone. If he was not killed in his bed before he could command his muscles-as thousands were, by the piles of stones and dirt placed on the roofs of Turkish houses to insulate them for winter -he next wanted desperately to escape his shaking surroundings and get outdoors, thinking to find stability there. But if he gained the street, he found everything...
...years I, as a rabbi, like all rabbis, denounced with all the oratorical fervor and fury at my command this celebration of Christmas by my own people. . . . 'Christmas,' I pleaded, 'is for the Christian - for him it is a happy, beautiful, holy day. It is not for the Jew - for him it is at best alien, at worst fraught with bloody memories and immemorial terrors...
Wounded somewhere in England was Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, second in command of a battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment, by a fellow officer who peppered His Grace by mistake for a rabbit...