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Nevertheless bald and owlish Dr. Otto Braun, the Socialist Leader who has ruled as Premier of Prussia for eleven years at the head of a rock-firm Socialist-Centrist coalition, was still last week in power. It was estimated that Dr. Braun will be able to muster 162 seats when the Diet convenes in June. Thus his coalition strength would exactly equal the strength of the Fascist Party alone. But Adolf Hitler can probably count on the support of "The Little Man In Blue," Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. newspaper tycoon and Nationalist leader. A Hitler-Hugenberg-Splinter-party coalition would muster...
...floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it is still there, and will be till Hell freezes over; because the man that built it had brains enough to know what he was doing. Costs too much to build a house upon a rock...
...Broker R. Snowden Andrews and Aviator John Petre were old sealers; Banker Edward Fletcher had never heard a seal bark. Thirty-six hours later the Tar Baby crept toward Goose Island, the Sound's favorite seal haunt. But the weather was thick, the seals kept away from the rocks where on bright days they bask. Patiently the banker, the broker, the aviator waited for another dawn. That day it snowed, they shivered aboard their boat all day. On the fourth day the skies cleared. Across the width of Goose Island the three men wriggled on their stomachs, waited uncomfortable...
...family sleep; downstairs they live their quiet family life. They have no telephone, no electric lights, no servants, but they entertain a few friends now & then. Poet Jeffers chose the bed downstairs by the sea-window for a good deathbed . . . when the patient daemon behind the screen of sea-rock and sky thumps with his staff, and calls thrice: "Come Jeffers...
...Over rock shaped like flame...