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Actually, Chambers added, he had obtained Government documents from 1932 to 1938 from many, not only in the State Department, but in the Bureau of Standards, the Aberdeen Proving Ground and the Navy...
...huge white letters along the sides of his tram, while Cremorne Hospital hoisted a diaper with red, white and blue streamers to the very top of its flagstaff. Frugal Edinburgh gave its pupils a half-holiday in honor of Elizabeth's blond, blue-eyed baby and an Aberdeen woman celebrated her 100th birthday with the wish that Britain's princeling might live to celebrate...
...Aberdeen's Dr. D. R. MacCalman had an even simpler theory: children were being spoiled by the rod. "Parents and teachers proceed joyfully to knock hell out of the little blighters. And what can the little blighters do but wait till they are big enough to do likewise? Children so brought up are, as adults, aggressive and violent...
Under banner headlines, the press of Baltimore pitched into a murder story from nearby Aberdeen. An 18-year-old girl had been strangled by her former fiancé, who drove around for hours with her body in his car while he was getting up the nerve to shoot himself. Half an hour after Hearst's News-Post went to press, the man changed his story in one important detail: he had actually killed the girl while they were inside the Baltimore city limits. That brought the murder case within the range of the state courts in Baltimore...
...Wrong Bucket. Crops-after a slow start in many states-were wonderfully good again. U.S. farmers, pleased at the prospect, were buying grey-market Cadillacs and planning trips to Europe. Farmer John Sternberg of Fulton, Ill. sent a load of Aberdeen Angus heifers to Chicago, got $39.25 a hundred pounds, the highest price per hundred pounds ever paid for heifers on the open market. Ohioans told a story about a farmer who took a bucketful of money to the bank to pay off an $8,000 mortgage.The teller emptied it, said: "There's $10,000 here." Said the farmer...