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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, Director Lilienthal has been busy in other parts of the TVA territory. Some 50 Southern municipalities have applied to TVA for power contracts, including Decatur, Ala., Augusta, Ga., Jackson, Tenn. Last week Director Lilienthal journeyed to Tupelo, Miss, to sign formally the first such contract. En route, he stopped off at Atlanta to make a speech on "the electrification of America...
...means dead, though Dictator Stalin has ostentatiously withdrawn from its Executive Committee, is the Comintern or Third International, the world agency of proletarian revolution. While Comrade Litvinoff was en route to Washington, dispatches from Moscow reported that "the windows of the Comintern Building are dark." Last week the Comintern Executive Committee issued an appeal "to the toiling masses of the world," bade them to "Join ranks with the Soviet Union proletariat! Forge a uniform Revolutionary Front against Fascism and War! Against Japanese Imperialism and World Imperialism! For a Soviet China and a Soviet Germany...
...Marshall Field III held the first Scavenger Hunt in London. Songwriter Cole Porter organized several in Paris. Last week energetic Elsa Maxwell, plump and practiced social impresario, introduced it to Manhattan as a new socialite sport. Occasion was a Hallowe'en charity party for the Maternity Center Association at the Waldorf-Astoria. From mid-evening until midnight 199 excited socialites scurried around the town trying to filch the assorted trophies demanded by Hunt Mistress Maxwell...
...address contained no ray of hope that there will be changes in the policies which so far have proved absolutely ineffective. The Farmers Holiday Association has demanded recognition of the right of the farmer of production cost, which is fundamental. The President en tirely ignored this and failed to mention...
...doctor to show Dr. Einstein a sphygmomanometer. Inquisitive, he fiddled with it to see how it worked, had his blood pressure counted before he knew it. Examination showed Dr. Einstein no more unhealthy than the average sedentary person. But last fortnight, aboard the S. S. Westernland en route to the U. S., he felt unwell, was obliged to keep to his cabin one evening. When he reappeared next morning, visitors approached to ask questions. Dr. Einstein explored an egg, said nothing. Thereafter Frau Einstein had all she could do to shield him from strangers...