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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ranji" was champion cricket batsman for All England, scoring 2,780 runs with an average of 59.91 -figures which Englishmen still ad mire. Today the "Ranji" cricket tradition is carried on by his nephew Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji who, as the Cricketers' Almanac for 1930 observes, "if not so famous as his renowned uncle ... is ... one of the great batsmen of the younger generation. . . . Like his uncle he possesses a remarkable eye and a pair of most supple wrists...
donated a five-story building to the Salvation Army to house 2,000 men out of work. The Daily News opened its "help wanted" ad columns free for a fortnight to all employers. The City Council revived an old plan to make four big railroads elevate their tracks over street crossings at a cost...
...common stocks was charged off by fiscal writers to a whisper among the knowing that "there's revolution in Germany right now, but the censor's sitting on the lid." All the big Berlin banks parried long distance calls from U. S., British and French clients, repeated ad nauseam the belief of their officers that a coalition of Centre" Parties will continue for some time to rule Germany, shutting out the extremists on left and right. Said famed Dr. Otto Braun, boss-politician of Prussia and Prime Minister of that state...
...have plenty of work to do. ... I tried to compromise and I asked him to take only a column . . . [but he] got his way. . . . I got the money for the first week's advertisement and that is all. I personally know that good results came of the ad and that the company sold oil burners on the strength of it." Petro officials claimed Matthews acted without authority. The court reserved decision...
...hard, soldierly, efficient* officer and humane, skeptical, almost pacifistic civilian. He believed in shooting sentries who fell asleep; ordered his men to fire many an extra round on Christmas Day, because he did "not believe in Christmas relaxation, in war"; used "atrocity" propaganda and blood-and-thunder speeches ad lib to increase his troops' morale. Yet he can take stock thus of the ultimate end of discipline, of all soldierly training: "The net result of the barren, glorious bloody battle of Thiepval is that over 700 men of the West Belfast battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles prove their ability...