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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Mention of Robert Southey's The Battle of Blenheim in your geograpnic Background of War brings to mind 141-year-old lines that are becoming all too current. Peterkin's grandpa should have been nonplussed when he recalled...
...which herewith apologizes to the Chrysler Corp. for inadvertently rouging its already healthy complexion. The declared dividend of $4 reported by TIME covered a nine-month, not a semiannual, period. If Chrysler's fourth quarter dividend is the same as its last two quarterly declarations, its stock (at current levels) will have yielded about 1% for the year...
...diplomat, dramatist (Amphytrion 38), novelist and profound student of national characteristics, Author Giraudoux came out of World War I a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Typical Giraudoux observation of current interest to U. S. readers: "The Americans . . . always fight themselves. When they were English, they fought the English, as soon as they were Americans they fought each other. When their culture became sufficiently Germanic, they fought Germany. The first American who took a prisoner in 1917 was named Meyer. So was his prisoner...
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...step version, the Beer Barrel Polka resembled a polka about as much as Yes, We Have No Bananas resembles a pavane. And Librettist Brown's lyrics (written with an eye to Bible-belt circulation) carefully avoided all reference to beer. But last week the Beer Barrel Polka, topped the current best-seller list, with 357,000 copies sold to date...