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...between Prince von Starhemberg (founder but now only nominally leader of the entire Heimwehr) and Major Fey, commander of the Vienna district. The growing power of Major Fey is one reason for Prince von Starhemberg's ominous muttering against the Dollfuss Government in recent weeks. The entire Cabinet shift was a gamble on whether or not Chancellor Dollfuss' personal popularity in Austria was as great as foreign correspondents would like to believe. Matters hung in a balance for 48 hours. Prince von Starhemberg issued dark threats of what he would do if the Government "did not live...
...while he said nothing definite enough or specific enough to serve as a basis for predictions, he did reveal enough to cause fore-bodings. Throughout the address, references to scholarship, research, and similar subjects sounded a distinct overtone. Such allusions may point the way to a gradual, almost imperceptible shifting of academic emphasis from the teacher to the pure scholar, a shift which, if violent enough, might well affright the student. No one, to be sure, denies the value and inspiration inherent in the words of a great scholar and discoverer, or even in the more sight of his accomplishments...
General Johnson figured that the Blue Eagle blanketed 85% of the land. But temporary re-employment agreements which had hatched the Blue Eagle automatically lapse Dec. 31. After that the popular ballyhoo will die away and NRA emphasis will shift to administering permanent codes, limited to a few major industries...
...more ready than he to admit that his whole recovery program was experimental, that some parts of it worked better than others, that knots and kinks were inevitable. He was not discouraged by last week's slack-off. If one method of relief failed, he was willing to shift nimbly to something else, improvising as he went along. Currency inflation he still regarded as a last resort, to be used only in the event of a major business relapse. He did not propose to waste his best ammunition now simply because his front lines were slowing down in their...
...engines which once warmed up, do not cut out. Transport operators hoot at the idea of danger in landing under power. They point out that at any moment during a landing, a pilot may need to gun his engines full blast to avoid collision, or to overcome a sudden shift of wind. Unless the engines have been turning over constantly, they will be choked and useless when he needs them. Hence the pilot "gooses" the motors with short bursts as he comes slanting down to the field...