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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Symphony Orchestra, contrived to make news. Last fortnight, she was the central figure in a de luxe musicale given by her father at the Sulgrave Club in honor of his own 54th birthday. The Vandenberg guest list of 300 included, as well as two Supreme Court Justices, half-a-dozen Ambassadors and a quorum of top-ranking Republicans, a good handful of anti-Roosevelt Democrats like Montana's Wheeler, Missouri's Clark and Rhode Island's Gerry. Washington political wiseacres promptly concluded that Mr. Vandenberg was launching his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1940 according...
During the course of the evening, the same procedure was repeated in half-a-dozen distributing stations of Consumers Power, a subsidiary of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. By morning, the switches controlling current for 1,000,000 consumers in the highly industrialized Saginaw Valley were completely under the control of the C. I. O. union...
...killed 3,000,000, and made Hindenburg fear to move German troops from his Polish front to his French front. Today few U. S. residents know anything of the disease or of the dirty pink eruptions, high fever, delirium and terrific death toll peculiar to typhus fever.*Half-a-dozen years ago, however, Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the U. S. Public Health Service, coming out of a hospital, weak, emaciated and quavering, revealed that he had contracted typhus from fleas, a cage of which he had worn for the sake of experiment taped to his leg. The fleas came...
...murals" and 5,000 sq. yd. of deck space, it has outside staterooms for all its 1,500 passengers. The Robert Ley is the second of no less than 20 25,000-ton ships planned for Kraft durch Fretide-no small project since there are now only about two dozen ships in the world which are as big. If built they will give Germany a handsome fleet of naval auxiliaries and troop ships...
...into her . . . with every shot tearing its destructive course from end to end of the ship. .. . . That was the sort of broadside which won battles. That single discharge had probably knocked half the fight out of the Frenchmen, killing and wounding a hundred men or more, dismounting half a dozen guns." With little philosophizing about war and man's fate, Author Forester, competent and unpretentious, hurries his story along, wastes no words as he makes Captain Hornblower a hero, follows him brisky to defeat and to prison from which, presumably, another fast-moving story will be required to free...