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...controlled by Nazis, the Premiership of Prussia. Adolf Hitler, making himself statthalter for Prussia, was about to confer the Premiership on his most active assistant, Capt. Hermann Goring, and that same Capt. Goring was about to set out for Italy to join Col. von Papen, whose job there was twofold: 1) to prepare the way for a later visit to Italy from Handsome Adolf himself; 2) as a good Catholic and Cameriere Segreto di Spada e Cappa (Private Chamberlain, Cape & Sword) to the Papal Court, to persuade the Vatican that Hitlerism promised no harm to Christianity or to the Catholic...
...contribution to the Roosevelt campaign was twofold: 1) $35,000 in cash; 2) a Big Businessman's assurance to Big Business that the "New Deal" would benefit the country. A close personal friend of the new President, he sits as a trustee on the Warm Springs Foundation...
...difficulty with the tutorial system is twofold; first as regards the tutees and, second, as regards the tutors. The average Sophomore thinks the tutorial work is unimportant because no grades are given in it. If he has to neglect something. It will be tutorial work. It is easier to bluff in that than in anything else, and he is inclined to view it as a lot of extra work that does not help much. As divisionals get closer the interest in the tutorial work increases, but a lot of time has been thrown away. On the other hand, the tutors...
...phenomenally popular The Art of Thinking Abbe Dimnet showed how men could add to their stature by taking thought. Lest mere headwork make them top-heavy he now writes more roundedly of the manly stature he believes all men desire. Motive for that desire he finds twofold-"the longing to live happy and the dread of dying ordinary." This longing, this dread induce men to follow strange teachers, strange doctrines. Hipped on some, they hobble along on others. But the true pilgrim's progress is not forwarded so much by crutches as by a comforting rod & staff. Such...
...history of the Detroit Free Press, 1931 stands out as the paper's 100th Anniversary. Last week it was made a twofold milestone when five Free Press reporters were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the year's best job of reporting. The story was an account of the American Legion parade in Detroit last September. The five winners, who shared the work and will share the $1,000 prize, are: portly, bald William C. Richards, 46; short Douglas D. Martin, 45 (Sunday editor); Frank D. Webb, James S. Pooler, N. W. John Sloan...