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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Croker took his wife to Florida for their honeymoon. Years earlier he had bought two miles of Palm Beach waterfront, built the first house in Palm Beach, an immensity named the Wigwam, out of compliment to his Tammany antecedents. As he grew older and more feeble, the Crokers left Palm Beach, spent most of their time in County Dublin. In 1922. while the children of his first marriage were trying desperately to have him declared mentally unfit. ex-Boss Croker died...
...thousand miles of Autobahn (speed-limitless motor roads) have now been built by the Nazis, who continue to open more at the rate of 650 miles yearly, have projected a total of 4,500 miles...
...Leader Adolf Hitler, after becoming Chancellor in 1933, founded four national Ordensburgs or Schools for Leaders. It will take five more years to complete these elaborate establishments, featured by "castles" built like medieval keeps, where the Leaders will be schooled. Most nearly completed is Castle Crossen-see in Pomerania, where the Leaders sleep in low, thatched buildings intended to suggest National Socialist links with the peasantry and the soil. Training at Crossensee of the first class of Leaders has just been completed and they are now going to work as teachers of 1,080 Leaders, youths between...
During the greater part of the story she is built up as one who loves nobody, and as such as one to whom the more loss of a husband should mean nothing. She is too beautiful not to acquire another just as she would acquire another vase for the broken one. Despite the buildup, however, the end shows her desolate. That is a flaw...
...Built on a basis of $3000 taken from surplus funds, the latest aid, entitled the Harvard Engineering Society Aid, will make use of income from this money. Increased by subscription, the fund hopes to total...