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...Albert Cabell Ritchie the unhappy victim of a situation which, had it occurred in any other week, would have been relatively unimportant. As it was, Conservative Mr. Ritchie found himself in the same boat with Conservative Mr. Hoover, whom he had often criticized. So completely had a nation-wide fog of emotion obliterated the channels of logic that the tabloid New York Daily News observed: "Our own notion is that it is another chapter in the world-old story of the fight between the Haves and the Havenots. We think the plebeians and the patricians, the Cavaliers and the Roundheads...
...cold white fog that rose from the Rhine all sounds seemed magnified. Official witnesses and a handful of newshawks turned up their coat collars and shivered in the Cologne prison yard. Down below the Rhine steamers hooted mournfully. A door clanked. Out marched brownshirts, prison guards and the official executioner -a Cologne butcher on other days. Hoarfrost formed on the nap of his official top hat, on the shoulders of his official tailcoat. The door banged again. Out marched the prisoners, six of them with necks shaved and prison blouses open at the throat. One by one they knelt...
...fog of nationalistic demagoguery the hard, clear fact is emerging that the foundation of Nazi economic policy is going to be the lowering in the standard of living of the hitherto powerful German worker. The announcement of plans for unified corporations of workers and employers merely indicates the specific form under which the power of organized labor will be broken. There can be no practical value of these organizations except to guarantee a docile and controllable labor...
...copy of TIME, Nov. 6, under the heading Army & Navy, I note, in your description of the fog crash of the U. S. S. Chicago, an error by insinuation...
...faked a hopeless leak and frightened his crew into the boats. Short-handed as they were, the boat's crew of the Blackganntlet turned to and sailed her home, not knowing till they reached mid-Channel whether they were still in the race or not. When the Channel fog lifted under a driving breeze they found they still had a chance. They cracked home lucky winners, luckier still to be alive...