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...know," began the diminutive politician, once jailed, an admitted bribee,* who fired 179 State college professors in one swoop and refused to convene the Mississippi Legislature for fear it would impeach him, "you know, I'm a trouble shooter. If anything goes wrong with this Farm Relief Act, I'm supposed to know about it right away. I keep in touch with the way people are thinking. I'm going to read all kinds of newspapers and magazines...
Cheered by 12,000 brownshirts in Berlin's vast Sportspalast, Governor Kube shouted: "Through the person of Adolf Hitler-whose mission is divine-every German has become more self-confident and valuable. It is wrong to speak in the plural of Nazi leaders. Our Nazi movement is monarchistic and knows only one leader-Adolf Hitler...
...decide what fee to ask. An Oriental potentate must be charged neither too little nor too much. Finally Dr. Wheeler had an idea, took a sporting ophthalmologist's chance. To the Royal Treasurer he sent a bill in blank, wrote on it modestly "THE KING CAN DO NO WRONG...
...Chicago in 1918. In Manhattan she offers herself and her services to a producer in return for a part in a smart comedy. Men she picks up and drops by the hodful until a strapping socialite, not unlike Miss Eagels' husband, Yale Footballer Ted Coy, does her wrong. A play not unlike Rain, called Port of Call, in which Miss Larrimore decks herself out as vulgarly as if she were about to play Sadie Thompson, furnishes the volatile actress immense satisfaction. She can tell the men in the play what she thinks of them. But soon physical illness leads...
...underwriting bankers would cease to have salesmen (some firms fired their salesmen last week). Other bankers would turn themselves into organizations of salesmen, avoiding the responsibility of dealing in their own securities and with little capital to lose if anything should go wrong...