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...months when Germany was preparing for the all-out assault against France her most effective propaganda slogan was: "England will fight to the last Frenchman." By dinning it into French ears day after day, week after week, German propagandists of the radio and the press planted suspicions which helped poison France's power to resist. Last week the propaganda machine of the Berlin-Rome Axis altered two proper nouns, tried out the old slogan again against the U. S. and Britain...
Said he: "You are a counterfeiter, you were an auto thief, you were charged with arson, you were hounded out of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and you came over to this city to pollute the citizens. You are just as infectious as though you put poison in our water system. ... I don't agree with my colleagues in extending you leniency. . . . You have no more right being in the publishing business than I have in an airplane, and I have never been in one." Then, shaking his finger at the white-faced defendant, Justice Hackenburg shouted: "You stink...
...joke on teacher by falling asleep in class, six Minneapolis eleven-year-olds took "sleeping tablets," niched from a medicine cabinet. Clark Synnes lost his nerve, began to pace the floor. Teacher: "Why are you so nervous?" Clark: "You'd be nervous too if you had just taken poison." Doctors administered emetics, found they had taken strychnine sulfate by mistake...
DEATH AT THE HELM- John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). A yacht piles up on shore with a man and woman freshly dead of poison in the cockpit: she, the wife of a frozen-faced K.C.; he the son of a Purity Society officer. Inspector Jimmy Waghorn figures it all wrong until Dr. Priestley finally appears...
...average Quiteno believed of the "damned Yanquis" that: "One day they will come over, hundreds of them, and kill us all with them, with these machines, with bombs that come down." There were busses named Hindenburg and Adolfo Hitler. And out in the jungle, headhunters no longer brewed the poison for their darts; they got it through white traders, most probably from a German chemical firm...