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...face of all the idealization of the glorious cross section plan for the Houses, perhaps a few considerations on the other side would not be amiss. There is another goal to strive for, which I believe is far more important. This is House personality. The aims of a cross section and of House personality are contradictory. If every House were to have the identical distribution of groups with equal proportions of all types, what chance would be left for House individualism? Little difference would remain, and this would be mostly physical. I am sure that no one wants the Houses...
Sailors on the British warships Glorious and Coventry anchored under a bluff near Cannes, France, looked up & saw the villa of retired U. S. Actress Maxine Elliott in flames. Landing parties rowed in, fought the fire for two hours. Loss...
...step we take leads upward toward the light. . . . The people have summoned a leader whose face is lifted toward the skies. We shall follow that leadership until we again stand in the glorious sunlight of prosperity and happiness...
...ordain,' " read the Chancellor quoting the President, " 'that, from tomorrow until a definitive ruling on the national colors, the black-white-red banner* and the swastika flag [Nazi] are to be hoisted in common. These flags link together the glorious past of the German Reich and the mighty rebirth of the German nation. In common they shall incorporate the power of the State and the internal unity of all the national forces of the German people. Military buildings will fly only the Imperial war flag...
...embody in himself ideals so contradictory--guessing like a child about Mirabeau, about Lafayette, and guessing rightly, but struggling with words and phrases which stretched like impossible pagodas into a German sky. Stormy, ill-tempered, tenacious to truth and error alike, once he had spoken but yet so glorious in his failure as brave as splendid, as startling as a Norse god in his twilight. "Past and Present," one of the fifty volumes left behind by this man whose cardinal virtue was silence, will be discussed this morning at 9 by Professor Rollins...