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...Just as raw materials, capital and men are conscripted or controlled, so must public opinion be dealt with in time of war. It must be organized and paraded under drillmasters. Censorship and propaganda are the agencies of domination. . . . Propaganda, however naive at times, shall proclaim our virtues, sublimate our aims, accentuate our successes, indict the vices of the enemy and minimize his achievements...
...edited text of Mr. Farrel's speech was an even more vitriolic sentence: "I think we should take the risk of closing down rather than to waste our raw materials...
...discussed by the Council of the League. Dr. Curtius then got it into his German head that he could keep this promise by talking about the merits of customs unions in general, not mentioning Austria or Germany. When he proceeded to do so, Chairman Briand, his nerves raw, may have thought Dr. Curtius was either a squarehead or no man of his word. Briand cut in: ". . . We must not attempt what it is forbidden to attempt!* . . ." This enraged Dr. Curtius, who seemingly thought he had been betrayed. "Monsieur Briand," cried the German, "has declared this plan for a customs union...
...tiny clearing in a green hell of jungle, near the bank of the Paranapanema River, the two men set out on foot. They lost their map and compass. A box of crackers, their only food besides a jar of marmalade, was consumed by red ants while they slept. Bitten raw by insects, torn by thickets, nearly starved, the men pushed on through the swamps until, on the eighth day, Quaranta collapsed, out of his head with fever and suffering. Di Robilant struggled on, was found on the twelfth day by an Indian and four white fugitives from justice. Next...
Last Thursday he went to the meeting of the $1,171,000,000 Consolidated Gas Co. of New York. It was a raw day. When he returned to his quaint old office he felt chilly. He called his car, went to his home on Madison Avenue over which falls shadows of midtown skyscrapers. (Next day the Empire State Building was opened.) Only recently had he come North from his Georgia retreat on Jekyl Island, where he and a small group of leading financiers have found rest and seclusion since 1886 and whither his most intimate friend, Edward Eugene Loomis...