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Representative Celler comes from Brooklyn, and so has a very real and very natural dread of Naziism. Fundamentally he designed his bill to provide the U. S. with means of competing with short-wave propaganda regularly broadcast for the past four or five years from Europe's totalitarian countries. Of the 30-odd bills pending in House & Senate to muscle Government further into radio, the Celler Bill is closest to the hearing stage and is, therefore, hated & feared by private broadcasters. It is their contention that the radio industry already provides ample technical and artistic facilities for South American...
...adept at maintaining the ditches and drains they had built to turn these swamplands into fertile fields, with 24 rich cities. Unfortunately the Romans, then barbarians and innocent of their later culture, sacked the cities and killed off the Volsci. About 600 B. c. they were first smitten by dread malaria. Of these dire swamps wrote Vergil, Juvenal, Martial, Horace, Ovid and others, including Madame de Stael and more recently Gabriele D'Annunzio. Julius Caesar made elaborate plans for reclamation, Augustus and even Nero had vast labors performed, but in vain. The Catholic popes, notably that enlightened Medici...
Liston Oak and Harry Milton, U. S. citizens who have fought for Leftist Spain and returned to the U. S., avowed in Manhattan last week their belief that "The Mink" functioned for months in Barcelona as its most dread Stalin Secret Political Police agent...
...Vienna last week, as Nazis took possession of the world's greatest establishment for medical teaching-the University of Vienna's medical school (300 professors & lecturers), the General Hospital (over 2,000 beds), the polyclinic and nine other hospitals-a dread epidemic struck down many a great physician. Reported as suicides were...
...star prisoner last week was, however, no habitué of Moscow embassies. He was Genrikh ("Henry") Grigorevich Yagoda, who, next to Dictator Stalin, was for many years the most dread official in the Soviet Union, the head of Stalin's Secret Political Police. Harold Denny of the New York Times wrote of what the 250 spectators in the courtroom saw as they studied the star prisoner last week...