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Every fire engine for miles around streaked for Nice, one fire engine careening into two men, squashing them dead. In the blazing Palais two firemen were injured and the whole Riviera was in uproar before the huge pyre was put out. "Whatever the flames did not destroy the water spoiled," mourned the Palais manager, "and this fire has thrown 500 men out of work." Nice police grimly arrested two Palais employes, charged them with arson...
...interested men may witness in Austria variations upon a theme by Hitler. It has come to be accepted as a law of social development that a waning capitalism will attack and destroy evolutionary social democracy. The corpse of the Austrian Socialist Party is being divided between the Dollfuss fascists and the pro-German Nazis. Its press has been silenced, its power is being alienated, and now reports have it that large numbers of its members are going over to the Nazis. It makes no difference whether Dollfuss or the Nazis win; both represent the inevitable triumph of capitalism by violence...
...permitted in the Freshman Union and in the Business School, but not in the Houses, points to the University's fears for the tenderly nurtured gentility now supposed to exist in the Houses, and indicates its assumption that the waiters from the undergraduate body would do much to destroy this gentility. This fear, the available evidence shows, is not only groundless but in any case inapplicable in a time of emergency. In the first place, it has been customary to dispose of student waiting as "sloppy." The whole question of efficiency, however, is one which is chiefly to be determined...
...solemn, nearsighted little German with a genius for laboratory detection made an international sensation by announcing that he had isolated the thin, curved bacillus which causes tuberculosis. Eight years later he sent another thrill around the world by telling about a substance, tuberculin, which he thought would destroy the bacillus, cure its human victims. But black days were ahead. Despite the other bacteriological triumphs of this onetime country doctor, it saddened the rest of Robert Koch's life when his tuberculin not only failed to cure consumptives but killed a good many of them in the attempt...
...opinion, Roosevelt is neither a revolutionist nor is he making a revolution. He is trying to preserve capitalism, not destroy it. "If Roosevelt goes as far to the left as I hope he will and as some of his advisers urge, he will eventually attain something like state socialism...