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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next Best Thing Devoted Nazis are fond of telling with utmost seriousness about the great German industrialist who found his daughter moping, tried to cheer her up by telling her she could have whatever she wanted for her birthday. "Alas, father, rich as you are, you cannot get me the only thing I want." "And what is that, daughter?" "Oh, if only I could have a child by Hitler!" With many a melting, impressionable Gretchen now in this state of mind, "Handsome Adolf" Hitler was seated last week at the Olympic Aquatic Stadium when a buxom female from Norwalk, Calif...
...53rd birthday of Benito Mussolini fell last week in the astrological sign of Leo the lion. No Italian newspaper mentioned the fact because Fascism is a youth movement, the title of the Fascist anthem is "Youth" (Giovanezza), and Mussolini must remain always young. Last week his wife gave a family birthday party and, for a birthday present, Il Duce got word from his Ethiopian Viceroy Field Marshal Graziani that Italian and native troops had surprised an Ethiopian force trying to break up the north road out of Addis Ababa, had killed...
...phantasmagoria of their own making. As for Franklin Roosevelt's broken campaign promises of 1932, he asserts that any politician who maintains complete consistency "assumes his own infallibility and will destroy his country if he stays in power." An invitation to him to deliver a Lincoln's Birthday address last winter was promptly withdrawn after a brief statement of his political views. Explained Republican Taft: "They wanted someone who would damn F. D. R. and all his works. I can't and won't, and some of the Republican orators and candidates who do, give...
...King-Emperor Edward maintained his refusal to receive Emperor Haile Selassie in audience, but on the 45-year-old Ethiopian's birthday last week 42-year-old Edward VIII sent congratulations...
...which their choirs sing, come from the industrious pens of some 20 U. S. anthem-writers. Of these the most prolific is Mrs. Carrie Belle Adams. In Portland, Ore. last week Mrs. Adams sent off to her publishers four new anthems, baked a jelly cake, celebrated her 77th birthday...