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...This threat Adolf Hitler discarded before reaching Breslau where he was inspired to announce: "No word has been said by us, no move undertaken in the past three years, through which anyone could feel threatened." In referring to the day on which he became Realmleader, Hitler cried: "Every honest German was ashamed at the time of my accession that at that time a certain international race [Jews] could openly propagate treason! I put a stop to that...
...writing. But it would never to so simply affecting if it were not for the piteous way in which the heroine, after having been told by the hospital that her baby is dead, and having been spurned by her distracted husband, comes back to the wards with the threat that her husband is coming soon with a policeman, to force them to relinquish her sick child...
...Senate, argued its hireling, is the sole judge of its own subpoenas, is not subject to interference from the courts. There might be, Mr. Harris suggested, a "very unseemly and unfortunate conflict" if the Court enjoined Western Union from delivering the telegrams and the Senate demanded the telegrams under threat of jailing Western Union officials for contempt...
...morning last week scientists, foremen and loyal workmen at Corning (N. Y.) Glass Works looked anxiously up at a grey, wintry sky, hoped the threat of snow would not materialize, for momentous and delicate doings were on foot. The snow held...
...revolutions were all concentrated in one swoop, whereas in England, for instance, they were separated, spread out over four centuries. Why has Russia's planned economy not yet succeeded in banishing scarcity? Say the Webbs: 1) because at first every productive resource had to be geared to the threat of war; 2) because Russia is waking up culturally faster than its demands can be supplied. "Paradoxically enough, this continued experience of a scarcity of commodities and services in general consumption or use is actually a triumph for planned economy...