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When questioned about his opinion on the practical advantages of the Littauer School, Governor Curley laughed outright and said, "Particularly in Republican states do we need college men trained in government. The business of government is the least understood and the most important in the world...
Since numerous Nazis were convicted of murder in the German courts before Adolf Hitler came to power, and since the "Blood Purge" he ordered as Chancellor included such outright Nazi murders as the shooting of General and Frau Kurt von Schleicher in their home (TIME, July 9, 1934), this blanket assertion that there has never been even one Nazi murder seemed last week perhaps the most amazing statement thus far by Messiah Hitler...
...Army supply bill, largest in peacetime history, which failed to include $29,000,000 which President Roosevelt had asked for the canal and four other non-military enterprises. The committee explained somewhat lamely that its omission of this item was not to be construed as an outright abandonment of the projects concerned, that the money might be included in a Deficiency Bill "before adjournment." Senator Fletcher, now a defender of the canal whether he likes it or not, roared that the committee had "played into the hands of the Republicans," said he would make every effort to have...
...experiment is explained by Professor Oakes Ames, Supervisor of the Arboretum, in the annual report of the institution, issued today. During the past two winters twenty-seven kinds of plants once thought hardy enough for the New England climate were killed outright, 248 varieties were killed to the ground, and 226 other kinds were severely damaged, according to a survey made by the Arboretum staff...
These modern bucaneers, known as Legionaires and veterans, have only had their taste whetted by this recent legislation. Already other and more exhorbitant plans are being formulated. This outright looting of the nation has shaken many people's faith in democracy. Before the bonuseers begin another raid and shock the public conscience once again, before they start beating their tom-toms again, they would do well to reflect that it is only one step from a loss of faith in a lavish, undisciplined and unprincipled democracy to a loss of democracy itself...