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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victor. Only national figure to emerge from the California election was Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Fortnight ago the ex-sports writer landed in Los Angeles and began sending out appalled columns: "This community lives under ether and utters weird cries in its waking dreams." Westbrook Pegler was alarmed, not because a proposed Ham & Eggs amendment to the State Constitution promised $30 every Thursday to retired citizens over 50 years of age, not because it would have compelled the Governor to name a leader of Ham & Eggs to administer the act, not because it would set up a State bank system with...
Under the impact of Nazi press agitation and their own large-scale defense preparations, the peoples of the Low Countries began to experience a real war of nerves, complete with mobilizations, floodings, frontier incidents (see p. 19). The two Governments, with their Cabinets meeting almost continually, got out assuring and reassuring statements, persuaded the Dutch and Belgian press to keep cool heads. But all Belgians and Dutchmen had to do to learn the newest sensation of the moment was to turn on British and French radios. In the U. S. eight-column streamers shouted "GUNS ROAR ON DUTCH-NAZI BORDER...
...Churchill made his weekly speech about the effectiveness of the effective British blockade of Germany's munitions and commodity supply lines. The tonnage figures sounded good to Parliament (see p. 21), and so did his announcement that since war began Great Britain has been able to triple the number of her submarine hunters. Last August ?11,000,000 was appropriated for construction of small anti-submarine craft...
Shortly after half-time, the Lamarmen began to click, reaching the 25-yard stripe in short order. Here, Ed Buckley faded back and fired a fifteen yard pass to Hal Tine who scampered over for the second tally. The kick was wide...
...wholesale transfers which began last week are not in accord with the intention of those who wrote and voted for the recent neutrality legislation, Wild believes, since Congress intended that no American ships should carry goods to belligerents, regardless of what flag they were flying...