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...Lean, fanatical Dr. Wilhelm Frick, a veteran of the Munich beer hall Putsch of 1923, has long been a Nazi front ranker. Born in the Palatinate, he was Minister of Interior of Thuringia when most Nazis were discredited. He ran the State on such enthusiastically Nazi lines that the Republican Government of Chancellor Muller stopped a $60,000 a month subsidy to the Thuringian State police in an effort to get rid of the Palatinate, Thuringia, Bavaria and the rest of them...
...been admitted to the District of Columbia bar. Said he last week: "When I go into a department, I always tell them to settle the matter on its merits and to bend over backward in view of my being secretary of the national committee. And they do lean over backward...
...Manhattan hospital where for three weeks he has been under treatment for shingles, Pennsylvania's long lean Governor Gifford Pinchot signed four State bills authorizing payment of $50,000,000 in bonuses to Pennsylvania's War veterans. "There are only two things I want to talk about," said he. "Roosevelt and my shingles. . . . Now about this shingles business. . . . You know the Administration's critics are something like my shingles. Shingles are microscopic little things-as a matter of fact you can't even see them under a microscope. You can't imagine how frustrated...
...Kipling's she-wolves, the motormakers awaited the judgment of the buying public. If their models were accepted, they would lope happily in the annual spring running, which everyone expected would be the swiftest in three years. If their models were rejected, they would find the hunting lean...
...Speaker of the House, by tradition, is above party but the leader of the majority is not. Upon Tennessee's long, lean, hollow-eyed Joseph Byrns fell the job of running the Democratic steamroller smoothly and successfully through to adjournment. He, too, predicted "harmony" at the outset of the session. But, just to make sure, Leader Byrns went to work on a change in the House rules which now makes it possible for 145 disgruntled members to get together and upset the best laid plans of the majority...