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During the year-long siege of La Rochelle, which broke the rebellious Huguenots, Father Joseph was offered quarters in Richelieu's house. Instead he chose "a deserted summerhouse standing beside a broad ditch at the end of the garden. . . . When the wind blew hard from offshore and the tides were high, the ditch overflowed, ankle deep, into the friar's bedroom...
...Labor Day, Mr. Roosevelt really got in stride. Giving up his year-long attempt to compete with Winston Church ill in the manufacture of richly phrased, purple-worded dramatic addresses, he switched style, went back to his own earlier simplicity, clarity. Result was one of his best speeches this year, a powerful, moving, direct and candid effort. Ostensibly speaking to U.S. workmen on Labor Day, he told all the people...
...Smoot, to 1,232; 2,800 pages of the Congressional Record recorded the debate. The bill raised tariff rates on more than 650 articles, some of them to the highest level in U.S. history. As the bill passed, a Tennessee Congressman named Cordell Hull, famed for his persistent 23-year-long losing fight for freedom of trade, wept...
...first report of a year-long Harvard expedition to Australia, which traveled more than 10,000 miles on the continent and took physical measurements of some 2,500 aborigines, will be made tomorrow night by Joseph B. Birdsell, physical anthropologist of the Peabody Museum at 8 o'clock tonight in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...revolution of nihilism, which Rauschning previously treated as a German manifestation, he now calls the last tremor of the 500-year-long revolt of the masses. Formerly the ancien régime, the old order, kept the masses in check. But skeptical humanism has sapped the faith of the masses in the old order while it sapped the faith of the old order in itself. Hitler, himself a man of the masses, had the political genius to perceive that the revolution is everywhere because the masses are everywhere. He did not make the revolution, he used...