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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bremen left New York harbor [on Aug. 30] at her full speed of 32 knots in the direction of the English Channel. The captain changed direction 200 miles from New York, removed all flags and declined to answer radio calls...
...first-nighters found they had to chase Weinberger's spreading chestnuts through a thick foliage of neat counterpoint, got the tune hurled at them forwards, backwards, upsidedown, finally lost themselves in the fugue which ended up sounding like a CzechoSlovakian polka. In the score, when the English tune .went backwards, Composer Weinberger had carefully labeled it with the Latin words More Hebraeorum (in the Hebrew manner)* with the explanation: THGIR EHT MORF DAER ESAELP TFEL...
...coal industry, one of the few industries really exporting its product (to neutrals whose English-German sources are cut off), was so swamped that paradoxically, in spite of steady, increasing exports to Canada, Bethlehem Steel ordered 6,000 tons of coke a month from the Steel Co. of Canada's Hamilton (Ont.) plant...
...forage cap, affectionately nicknamed "Culo de Hierro" (Iron Arse), Bolívar would suddenly break the tedium of a march by challenging his companions to outjump him. He liked to dance with female camp followers around the campfire, would break off abruptly to dictate (in Spanish, French or English) his fast, polished sentences to a secretary. He pardoned his venal aides, refused to feather his own nest, praised his generals unstintedly. He deliberately resigned as Supreme Chief in order to discourage dictatorship...
...first public statement as head of the American Civilization Plan, Malone paid credit to his predecessors, Howard M. Jones, professor of English, and Dean Buck, and to Smith, the ranking Counselor, for their parts in the establishment of the program...