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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain engaged in terrorizing refugees and, with threats of harm to relatives in Germany, coercing German-born servants in garrison centres to ferret out scraps of military information. One of the duties of these "journalists" is supposed to be to supply Berlin with the names, characteristics and political opinions of every German resident in Great Britain...
...those 14 years, milk-drinking, early-to-bed Lou Gehrig, son of a German-born Manhattan janitor, became famed as Base ball's Iron Horse. He played in 2,130 consecutive games (besides seven World Series and hundreds of exhibition games)-a record that no baseballer has ever approached or perhaps ever will.* Far more important than his record for durability, however, is Gehrig's batting record: 1,991 runs driven in (100 runs or more a year for 13 years), 2,721 hits (1,192 of them for extra bases), 1,886 runs (including 494 home runs...
...Currick and Evans ($1.50). *Seldom used by lawyers is the term illegitimacy in adoption. A child born out of wedlock belongs to its mother, may legally bear her name and inherit her property...
Otto Struve has seen more of life than most stargazers. Scion of a distinguished line of European astronomers, he was born in Kharkov, Russia, where his ancestors had settled after emigrating from Germany. He studied astronomy at Kharkov's university, served in the Russian Army in the World War, fought on the Turkish front. He fought with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks, fled to Constantinople after the White Russian collapse. While hiding in a coal bunker he found a wad of Imperial Russian banknotes which would have made him rich a few years before but were then worthless...
Franklin Roosevelt's business appeasement policy is only nine months old but already it is a retarded infant. It was allegedly born in a confidential memo of Adolf Augustus Berle whose present job as Assistant Secretary of State does not prevent him from braintrusting all over the lot. It soon fell out of the arms of its nurse, Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, who in his oversold Des Moines speech last February failed to give it anything but words to teethe on. Last week those who should have loved the baby most dearly, shoved it in the face...