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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...write a new, great German philosophy or finish the sequel to Mein Kampf. To a psychoanalyst Hitler's shaft would be an obvious symbol of impotence; to psychiatrists the desire to be so completely alone would stamp him as a schizoid (split) personality. The ordinary schizoid who cannot build a lonely house occasionally withdraws into his own shell and refuses to speak or deal with other people. Perhaps more to the point is British Samuel Johnson's diagnosis of the craving for solitude...
During last year's bloody purge of "Trotskyists, Fascists, counterrevolutionaries, spies and wreckers," many innocent victims were framed by stool pigeons, police agents and prosecutors anxious to build up their reputations for zeal and vigilance. Communist Russia, unlike Nazi Germany, washes much of its dirty linen in public and last week characteristically made public the weirdest abuses of the purge...
...Sciences officially recognized Pasteur's serum, and hostile criticism melted before the warm rush of praise that greeted the scientist from all over the world. Hundreds of persons who had been bitten by mad dogs rushed to his laboratory, and a public international subscription was opened to build larger quarters. Thousands of francs poured in, and in 1888 President Sadi Carnot of France, surrounded by a brilliant throng of cheering scientists, opened the Pasteur Institute. But the new Institute came too late to the old genius who had! suffered taunts and gibes all his life. As he gazed with...
...play for Nazimova, service as a War flier in Italy (where he cracked up so many planes he was known as "the Austrian ace"), and running Paramount's Eastern studio in the 19203. Three years ago, he astounded the industry by announcing that he and Mussolini planned to build a "cinema city" on the outskirts of Rome, put Italy into cinema production on a grand scale. When the Hitler-Mussolini axis was formed, the Mussolini-Wanger axis broke. Wanger went on record as Hollywood's No. i anti-dictator producer by making Blockade and is now leading...
...franchise for a Manhattan subway was first offered at public auction in 1892. Although potentially it was probably the most lucrative franchise ever offered, it drew a lone bid of $1,000, which was promptly rejected. The city thereupon decided to build the subway itself and August Belmont, then a financial outsider, came forward to act as contractor. When the line was finished in 1904, his Interborough Rapid Transit Co. secured a lease to operate...