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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seattle, the Strassburger Foundation to further U. S.-German friendship awarded its $1,000 prize to his terse, lively, human, 367-page Washington biography, The Story of the Making of a Nation. In it Author Reinhardt compared General Washington to Field Marshal von Hindenburg, his all-time hero. Among the literary judges who picked the book were Scientist Albert Einstein, Authors Thomas Mann, Jacob Wassermann, Stefan Zweig. All are now dead or in exile...
...casualties can only be guessed at, but they have been huge - even among the Japanese, who have had to fight General Plague, General Flood, and General Attrition. The Japanese sack of Nanking will go down in history as the greatest mass sexual orgy of modern times - thousands of women and girls were assaulted to top off the mass execution of thousands of civilians. The fall of Canton last October was equally extraordinary: fearful that the story of Nanking would be repeated, Canton's 860,000 residents virtually abandoned the city within a few hours of the Japanese arrival - probably...
...minors, Manager Lazzeri will match wits with many a famed onetime major-leaguer. Among his rivals in the International League (Class AA) are three former big-league managers: Rogers Hornsby (Baltimore Orioles), Burleigh Grimes (Montreal Royals) and Steve O'Neill (Buffalo Bisons). Other famed big-leaguers now managing minor-league teams: Donie Bush (Louisville Colonels), Roger Peckinpaugh (New Orleans Pelicans), Lefty O'Doul (San Francisco Seals), Rabbit Maranville (Albany Senators), Kiki Cuyler (Chattanooga Lookouts), Blondy Ryan (Clinton, la. Giants), Goose Goslin (Trenton Senators...
...keen in the field. Said he: "If Christianity should die out in Europe and America, it exists in such vitality and propagating power in the younger churches of India, China, Japan and Africa, that sooner or later it would spread from those bases and re-establish itself among...
Married. Nina Barbara Raskob, 21, ninth of Financier John Jacob Raskob's 13 children; and Charles Wesley Lyon Jr., 23, University of Virginia Law School graduate; in Centreville, Md. Among the guests: New York's ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith...