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...German reader today is the best-informed newspaper reader in the world. . . . The German press, of course, does not publish indiscriminately all the lies and reports cooked up by hostile propaganda. . . . We are not rushing the German newspaper reader from one nerve-racking sensation to another, we are not subjecting him to every stupid political gossip coming from the mouth of some hysterical person or from the pen of our enemies...
...Reader Parker could be wronger, but not much. The Conestoga wagon was made in Conestoga, Pa., which had been named for the Conestoga Indians. To Conestoga went teamsters hauling lumber, tooling the team with one hand while they rolled a cigar with the other. Later Conestogas, or stogies, became favorites of the wagon trains freighting from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, where the drivers would sell the supply they had rolled along the way. Hence, Pittsburgh stogies. Wheeling came in on the freight...
...Prime Minister defended Viscount Halifax for censoring 44 lines out of a Britain-must-aid-Finland newspaper article by ousted War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha. This was done, explained Mr. Chamberlain, lest any reader think that Mr. Hore-Belisha was writing with "special authority." Two days later in Devonport the ousted Secretary, speaking as an ordinary M.P. to his constituents, spouted what were thought to be his censored lines, virtually called for Allied war on Russia to save Finland...
...aims stood out like moments of nightmare in a some what foggy dream. His new book, The Voice of Destruction, is an evidently hurried transcript of notes on Hitler's private assertions in 1932-34. It may be substantially credited or discounted according to how much distortion the reader sees in Junker Rauschning's solemn retrospective indignation. It is certainly unique for the picture it gives of Hitler snapping and shouting at his pals, swearing to make Germany a "core of steel" for a new European society, breaking off to hum motifs from Wagner. Pertinent gems from...
...definitely anti-Semitic creation ; underestimates such dull-acting but extraordinary poems as Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus; insists the plays should be read aloud, staged with a minimum of scenery and business. There have been more brilliant and more monumental studies of Shakespeare. But for the general reader this is an almost ideally useful, informative companion volume to the plays, and guide to further reading...