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What kind of program would fetch U. S. listeners? The question agitated the Propaganda Ministry in Berlin. Then one of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels' henchmen had a bright idea. Forthwith to the U. S. via short wave last week went the news that Germany would pay toll on cabled requests for Nazi radio talks on desired subjects. Quick to publicize the German offer was the U. S. press. The Manhattan tabloid PM, which mortally hates & fears Adolf Hitler only a little more than it does Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh, exhorted its readers to take advantage of the Nazis...
...This policy has been approved by the Cabinet," he said, "and we shall proceed with the rules forthwith. Any person so required must render the necessary war effort in one capacity or another." "Lords as well?" asked a Laborite, because even last week the idea of a lord with greasy hands seemed incredible to many Britons...
...take the baking soda seriously. Fortnight ago, Captain Patterson hailed a young couple in The Bronx, Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Hamton, who tried lactic acid and baking soda douches, and got what they ordered: first a girl, then a boy. The Daily News's Sex Control Editor" was forthwith deluged with letters and phone calls, answered cautiously that he could give no specific instructions for human beings. Captain Patterson couldn't be sure that the Hamtons hadn't been plain lucky...
...Salt Lake City in 1890, snow-bearded Wilford Woodruff, then President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, received a revelation from the Lord that the world was not yet ripe for the doctrine of plural marriage. Forthwith he banned it, ordered immediate excommunication of all Mormons who insisted on the full life, including polygamy. That obstacle at last removed, Utah was admitted to Statehood, although Reed Smoot, Mormon Senator, wasn't sure of his seat until after an exhaustive Senate investigation had disclosed that Mormons did not have two horns and a tail, as charged...
...Hoosen never misses an opportunity to give mere man a piece of her mind. Once, when she was about to operate on a woman infected with gonorrhea, she learned that the patient had caught the disease from her husband. She sent for him forthwith, made him stand by and watch the operation. Thrice he fainted; thrice Dr. Van Hoosen called to her assistants: "Throw some water on him. . . . He's responsible for this thing and he's going to see it through...