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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While New York Police Commissioner Valentine sent a special detective to investigate the charge against Detective Broderick, and Navy Yard officials announced calmly that they knew they had Communists among their 9,300 workmen, but watched them carefully, main interest in the Communist Party centred on Comrade Malkin's denunciation of Comrade Charles Dirba...
Last week in Washington 4,600 delegates to the National Association of Postmasters' Convention, having congratulated Postmaster General Farley for showing a"net operating surplus of $10,000,000" for the last fiscal year, praised his "humane and efficient leadership," sat down to a feed. They ate up, among other things, 25 gallons of olives, 1,800 breasts of capons. Then they settled back to hear their boss tell them that "the U. S. Post Office and its people constitute the greatest public service in existence today...
...final liquidation of their property, which must amount to many millions of dollars, being left to the Commission. In Tallinn alone, 1,000 apartments and houses were already vacant and in Riga, where 40,000 Germans lived, the commercial district was almost deserted. German language newspapers folded. Among the famed journals of Riga was Das Baltikum, founded by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, chief of the Nazi Party's foreign political office and long regarded as the spiritual font of Naziism. The Hitler-Stalin collaboration has ended Baltic-born Dr. Rosenberg's dream of German eastward expansion at the expense...
...Polish territory occupied by Russia, elections were announced last week to take place Oct. 22 for deputies to a national convention. This was expected to vote confirmation of the seizing of Polish estates and their division among the peasants. According to Soviet newspapers, Polish peasants in the sphere occupied by Russia have now been supplied with adequate tobacco, matches and salt, previously were so poverty-stricken that they had been smoking dried cherry leaves...
Furthermore, statements have been issued by nearly every University official showing the evil effects of tutoring on education. Not only is there not one sound educational practise to be found among the many schools in the Square, but there is also no fundamental necessity for their existence...