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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cornhusking Championship (Thurs 12:30 p. m. NBC-Blue). Champions from eleven States compete for the national title in the annual battle of the bangboards. Ear-by-ear account from the J. N. Jensen farm, 22 miles north of Sioux Falls...
Lincoln Steffens' Autobiography was published in 1931, became an immediate best-seller despite Depression, its price of $7.50 and the fact that its author, then 65, had been virtually forgotten. By 1938 it has sold 94,577 copies, and is generally accepted as the definitive account of: 1) the great reform movement that swept the U. S. before the War, 2) the birth of modern magazines, 3) the dilemma of liberals facing such post-War phenomena as Fascism and the Russian Revolution...
...since she combines technical discussions of flight with humdrum, housewifely confessions of her fears while flying. Listen! The Wind has the same engaging tone as North to the Orient, includes some vivid recollections of tense hours over the Atlantic which give a better picture of transoceanic flying than any account...
...knowledge of the country, and for his status as a European who nevertheless could not claim the protection ''of a European country. According to Amleto Vespa, the Japanese forced him to become their agent by threatening his wife and children. Secret Agent of Japan is his account of his experiences from 1932 until his flight from Manchuria in 1936, covering his operations in Harbin, accounts of the Manchurian drug traffic, thefts, kidnapping, assassinations, torture, all of which he ascribes to Japanese army officers...
...Japan is vouched for by Edgar Snow (Red Star Over China) and by Harold John Timperley, Far Eastern correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. Without such confirmation, readers might question Vespa's story, not because he fails to cite chapter and verse for his statements, but because its account of Japanese rule is such an unvaried, stupefying record of unchecked, fanatical robbery...