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...ideals forgotten since the days of Aristotle, ideals realized by Shakespeare alone of all moderns. Goethe, Schiller, Klopstock, Germany had her great century. Then it was over. The bourgeois, the Junkers, the Army, they were the Germany of the nineteenth century. Spake Zarathustra: "Now do we desire--the Superman to live...
...harshly on his sensitive ego. After Mr. Hoover's election. President Coolidge was considerably irked by the public adulation of his successor. When a White House visitor asked him what he was going to do about Muscle Shoals President Coolidge snapped: "I'll leave that to the Superman " In retirement Citizen Coolidge was frequently reported to be getting a good deal of impish satisfaction out of President Hoover's troubles. Only once has he been inside the White House since he left...
...International bankers reversed the financial rule of the centuries and the policy became one of the lender seeking the borrower instead of the borrower seeking the lender. . . . The bankers had just one thought and that was profits. . . . The banker with money pouring in began to regard himself as a superman and soon in his egotism became convinced the Lord had endowed him with a peculiar prescience and ability which raised him into a royally created class, far more blessed by a discriminating and wise Creator. ... It is little to be wondered at if the ordinary investor approached in some trepidation...
March 2). He is accused of "incompetence, do-nothingness and reactionary stultification." Four reasons for this result are advanced: 1) The Hoover myth of a superman, built on propaganda...
...games last season: the first no-hit, no-run game pitched in the major leagues in nearly two years, beating the St. Louis Browns 9-0. Besides striking out eight men, allowing only three walks (three others got on base on errors by miserable Bill Hunnefield, short stop), Superman Ferrell drove a terrific home run into the center field bleachers in the fourth with a man on base, and brought in two more runs in the eighth with a double off the right field wall...