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...Little Hells" spell disaster to the natives of El Salvador, the pocket Republic on that neck of land joining North and South America. "Little Hells'' are geysers of boiling water that hiss and squirt in the bowels of the earth until something gives way. It was El Salvador's "Little Hells" that last week brought the town of San Vicente toppling down, killing 250, injuring...
Many a young official who has been getting $6,000 or $8,000 a year and paying for long distance telephone calls and trips on Government business out of his own pocket (because the Comptroller General would not approve them), has been tempted by such offers...
...gave him the appearance of a respectable Aryan. As he entered the room he heard Saint Gustloff spitting into the telephone: "Ah, these pigs of Jews and Communists, we will see an end of them!" This was too much for David Frankfurter, who calmly plucked a revolver from his pocket, shot five deadly bullets into the body of the saintly missionary. Into the room rushed the Saint's wife screaming, "Why did you do that?" David held his peace. ''Why did you do that?" she screamed again. Replied David Frankfurter quietly, "Because...
...bitterly at odds with his brain-trust associates in 1933 was AAAdministrator George Nelson Peek that he rejected the services of AAA Counsel Jerome Frank, hired a Washington lawyer as his personal attorney, paid him $4,603 salary out of his own pocket. Eventually leaving the New Deal's service, stubborn Mr. Peek removed himself completely from its good graces when he plumped for Alf Landon (TIME, Oct. 12). Last week, when he petitioned the Board of Tax Appeals for redress, it was revealed that the Bureau of Internal Revenue, rejecting piqued Mr. Peek's claim that...
While these laws reached into many a German pocket, another took over the young German's body if not his soul. Hereafter every German boy and girl, "without exception," must join the Hitler Youth "to be trained physically, spiritually and morally." Declared newly appointed Youth Leader of the German Reich Baldur von Schirach: "The lives of all German youths belong solely to Adolf Hitler." At this announcement Catholics throughout Germany grew fearful, wondered if an insidious attack was being made on their religion. Nor were they much reassured when Youth Leader Schirach said...