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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Germany, one by one, the shackles of Versailles, and last week came the mighty moment when his chain-bursting finally carried Nazi expansion well out beyond the borders of Germany, sent it crashing not only into a foreign land but into Austria-the land in which Hitler was born...
Unless this whole statement was a tissue of deliberate lies. Dr. Seyss-Inquart had thus brought back from his conference with Herr Hitler very good news for Austrian Jews, Austrian Catholics and all 100% Austrians. After all, Hitler was born an Austrian, is an Austrian blood & bone. Since the Austrians are easygoing, fun-loving people, and Hitler knows it, it seemed likely that a ruthless, violent Prussian-style Nazification might not be forced on Adolf Hitler's native people...
...competed in 200 meets, placed 190 times, won no times, broken 50 records. His older brother, Sigmund, won the U. S. championship while on a visit last year and placed fifth last week. The Brothers Ruud are-next to Sonja Henie-Norway's greatest athletic pride. Born in a little silver-mining town of Kongsberg near Oslo, which has produced more topflight ski jumpers than any other spot in the world, little Birger Ruud won his first championship when he was seven years old. Since ski jumping is a matter of confidence and body control, Birger Ruud, like...
...learned to swim in the dirty streams below the woolen mills at Leeds, where the water dyed him blue one day, red the next. At 8 he was junior swimming champion of England, at 22 he went to the U. S. on a professional barnstorming tour. Robert Kiphuth was born & bred in upstate New York, took all his exercise on land. At 22 he was a punctilious instructor in physical education at Yale...
Such was the cataclysmic picture painted last week in Manhattan by Hans Torkel Fredrik Lundberg, a Swedish-born mining engineer and geologist of Toronto. At a meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Mr. Lundberg described the latest efforts to find, by newfangled electrical and magnetic prospecting, the remains of Arizona's great meteorite...