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Today Realmleader Hitler maintains a standing threat to sue anyone who makes available in a foreign language the full text of his war-breathing autobiography, My Battle, which is still Germany's bestseller, has sold well over 1,000,000 copies. Available in English is nothing but a bowdlerized version with all the more violent passages purged. When a group of Frenchmen put the full text into French last year, Battler Hitler sued them in the French courts, obtained an injunction. His theory: it is good for Germans to read his hymnal of hate, bad for Germans to have...
...excommunication, "forced by the pressure of his contumacy, we excommunicate him with these words, and we proclaim him to be avoided until he shall have fulfilled that which is ordered so his soul may be saved on the Day of Judgment." Last week Archbishop Diaz brandished this monstrous threat at Mexican traitors to the Church. He declared liable to excommunication...
...June 1933 would have to be paid at the rate of $1.69 for every $1 borrowed. To most debtors such an added burden would prove disastrous. Furthermore, no matter what the outcome of the gold clause cases, business was face to face with what it always fears most-a threat to the status...
...pensions of disabled veterans upped from $30 to $100 a month. A second proof came in 1924 when it induced Congress to vote a bonus payable in 20 years to some 3,500,000 veterans. In 1931 the Legion was back at the Capitol, demanding and getting, under threat of political reprisals, legislation whereby veterans could borrow 50% of the face value of their bonus certificates. And in 1934 it secured the restoration of a large part of the pension cuts made by President Roosevelt in the name of Depression economy. In 1931 the Legion membership reached a peak...
...Nash's threat to the low-priced field has a now kind of springing this year, which gives greater comfort and requires no lubrication. Otherwise there isn't much difference, externally...