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...Stripes! Not that we aren't sorry for the British or like Hitler; but all this suddenly revived glorification of British Democracy by the same crew who assisted the murder of CzechoSlovak and Spanish brands of it -well, that just won't go away, like a bad smell...
...could not quite believe it. A revolutionary smell clung to him like the faint, unmistakable odor of the cell and the cellar. It showed in his quack-doctor's beard and stump-speaker's hair, in his thin, restless hands and his flashing, nearsighted eyes; in his quick, alert, high-shouldered walk as he strolled about his garden. It persisted in his plotter's habits of thought, which made him the most potent critic of the regime he broke with and always a latent threat to it. The fate that all revolutionaries fear had pursued him wherever...
...hung, with other Cadmus paintings, in the Treasure Island treasury of U. S. art. Entitled Sailors and Floozies, it showed two sailors and a U. S. marine gleefully enduring the blandishments of three substantial-looking wenches. Dr. Heil took the picture down. Said he: "There's too much smell about it. It's not a masterpiece. It's just unpleasant...
...British Foreign Office. U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull issued an acid statement declaring that the closure was against U. S. interests in "open arteries of commerce." In the House of Commons, a long-standing sympathizer with China, Liberal Geoffrey Mander, complained so bitterly about the smell of appeasement that Prime Minister Churchill was obliged to make his first Parliamentary statement on Far Eastern matters: In reaching this painful decision, said the Prime Minister, he had been guided by "the dominant fact that we ourselves are engaged in a life or death struggle...
...cane importers and refiners are equipped to serve a market for 8,000,000 tons. Besides this, the relatively high-cost beet operators of the Mountain States, California and Michigan, can turn out 2,000,000 tons. Under a free economy, beet sugar would not get a smell of the domestic market until demand broke all records and exceeded 8,000,000 tons. But the beet growers, chief of whom is one of the Mountain States' best connected businessmen, President Heber Jedediah Grant of the Mormon Church, are better politicians than economists. Via Senator Reed Smoot they were Washington...