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Last week, as Germany's fat lands rolled sweetly to the plow, General Goring drastically pointed up the Four-Year Plan to embrace agriculture, announced that the Reich would grant farmers much vaster annual subsidies than ever before- 200,000,000 marks ($80,000,000) in 1937, increasing progressively to 300,000,000 ($120,000,000) in 1940 and making a grand four-year total of 1,000,000,000 ($400,000,000). Thus was inaugurated for Nazis a sort of inverted AAA whereby German farmers will be paid to produce crops & not to limit them...
...world has vanished, that he is an outsider; that he is no longer wanted. And whatever pleasure he may try to derive that the wasteful frivolity of his youth can yet be assuaged through quiet, reflective reading in Widener's pastures, is slowly smothered in a red tape vaster than any he encountered in student days. But it is rather the privilege of participating again in the life of the university than participation itself which the alumnus would find valuable...
...transatlantic review went the way of all such reviews, but its business took Author Ford to the U. S., which he liked, especially Manhattan. "New York is not America because she is the expression of an ideal vaster and more humane." An amiable but persistent sort, never bearing malice long (he thinks a lack of hatred is the secret of being a novelist) but going quietly on his way "like a nice old gentleman at a tea-party," Author Ford had too much bounce in him ever to be cast down for good. Though for years his books brought...
...evening and then take them all to a musical show. His own taste ran to sentimental "gypsy" music and Viennese waltzes which he would listen to with the tears running down his plump cheeks. There is reason to believe that Carload Ritchie died on the threshold of a vaster career. Born in the hamlet of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, he used to hang around the local hotel as a schoolboy, eagerly watching the smart traveling salesmen. When he became a salesman himself, it was as a commission agent for more & more old British grocery and drug houses. In 1928 he startled...
...speak of nothing but business, and speak quickly. To the merchant-princes of the guild, who saw it in passing, it might have seemed like the humble bootleg of a cobbler. Not the most fortunate of them would know that within it countries of the mind were being discovered, vaster than the lands toward which another Italian was sailing in the same year. Entering, he would have found the flower of Venetian scholarship gathered about a table. On it a skillful craftsman was laboriously fashioning little blocks of metal into the forms of graceful letters, using a manuscript of Petrarch...