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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them were bigwigs of the Nazi Reich who are privileged to come & go without a word of their movements in the German Press. Last week everything was ready for Hitler & Co. to execute one of the complicated kiss-kick-and-wheedle Nazi plays which European statesmen find so difficult to deal with...
...their race on earth-VIRILE PEOPLES in the strictest meaning of those words!" In what appeared to be a slap at France, the Dictator contemptuously declared: "Peoples with empty cribs cannot create an Empire-and if they have an Empire the time will come when it will be extremely difficult for them to keep or defend...
...fact that if any considerable quantity of platinum were held by the public any arbitrary rise in price would be checked by public selling. Last week's sudden rise in platinum prices, whether or not designed for the purpose, put the offerers of platinum certificates in a difficult spot. If they sold much metal at that high price, and the producers suddenly dropped the price, they would get a very bad name with their new clients. Treading warily, the certificate dealers priced their wares at $61.50 per oz.-50? under the wholesale price-and limited sales to small quantities...
...hospital in the South. But amiable Southern disregard for her passionate cleanliness campaigns soon convinced her she could not manage the nurses. She became a private nurse, was mixed up in a ridiculous, small-city scandal, returned to New York, suffered poverty again before she got a fine but difficult job caring for a famed millionaire who was drinking himself to death. As soon as that job was over she was looking for work again. On the verge of a breakdown, she applied for employment with a celebrated psychiatrist named Dr. Stuart Ellery Jerrold (Smith Ely Jelliffe). He gave...
...Jurisprudence at Barcelona Uni-versity for the past 15 years, returned to the University of Paris declaring that Barcelona was split into four hostile factions. "The hordes now in charge in Catalonia," he said, "resamble sewer rats come up for air, and I fear it is going to be difficult to get them down into the sewers again, whatever happens. Thousands of convicts liberated from prison roam the streets and some of them have been made 'officials.' In the midst of all this the, authorities are devoting plenty of time to campaigns against religion. The word adios [good...