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...made the error, so far as his U. S. audience was concerned, of caricaturing the free press of the U. S. and calling it a liar. The U. S. press and people, if they credited Herr Hitler with some hits, seemed still to believe that Mr. Roosevelt's search for world peace with relative justice was a search more honest than Hitler's reply; and that, although the U. S. may not have a perfect moral record in history, the only hope for men of good will now is in a moral future...
...keep him contented. News that a notorious criminal, of similar description, has just escaped from a neighboring jail disturbs the old maid somewhat, but she reflects that "it is better to be killed by a man than to live without one." The police, on a house-to-house search for the robber of the liquor store, frighten the innocent tramp, and he flees in the old maid's car, taking her maid and most of her silverware with him. Moral: "A woman can do what the Devil himself can't do: make a thief of an honest...
...Angeles was not yet mad enough at Hitler to want to fight him abroad, but anger was rising. The big, sprawling metropolis ("seven suburbs in search of a city") seemed not really concerned about the war threat. Europe is a long way from Los Angeles...
...kind of international banker who, during crises, will spend a day at transatlantic telephoning, Bill Wasserman since the first of the year has traveled 18,000 miles, poking his head into various high places in search of useful information. At No. 10 Downing Street, London, in the office of Neville Chamberlain's economic adviser, Sir Horace Wilson, Banker Wasserman engaged in a conversation that last week proved highly interesting to the U. S. According to Mr. Wasserman, Sir Horace told him that at the outbreak of war the British Government would take over all the U. S. securities held...
...investigator didn't reread whether or not his search bad culminated at Lampy, but set out toward Mother Advocate...