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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Close to the mouth of the Polish Corridor lies the Free City of Danzig with a population predominantly German. Nearly three years ago Danzig's citizens went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly for a pro-Nazi local government. Last year Danzig's ancient Hanseatic flag was given a corner in the Nazi Swastika flag, Nazi Leader Albert Forster publicly acknowledged his loyalty to Adolf Hitler, and the world waited to see how soon Germany would openly annex the Baltic city...
...between San Francisco and Los Angeles as a guest of United Air Lines."* Last week U. A. L.'s paid travel over the 345-mile airline jumped 20% as 172 wives took guest rides. This week United Air Lines and T. W. A. are getting together to offer free trips, good for 30 days, to wives accompanying husbands on any schedule of the Chicago-Newark route...
...farm a foot-high locomotive chuffs over 600 yd. of miniature track, while its owner potently sits on the boards of such full-sized lines as Great Northern and Illinois Central. Five years ago Railroader Astor purchased five acres of Bermuda's 19 square miles of tax free soil,* began to build a lordly tropical house, "Ferry Reach," and meantime extended his land along the waterfront on St. George's Island. Main difficulty was that "Ferry Reach'' was a fatiguing 850 ft. from the boat house where visitors ordinarily landed. Last week this difficulty was overcome...
...does 75% of the community's mortuary business, promptly counteroffered to set up "a clinic for families in need of funeral services somewhat along the lines of medical clinics." "We want," declared the Association's president, John J. Flynn, "to keep the funeral service in such cases free from suspicion of pauper stigma such as might possibly be involved if the cases had to be handled through municipal mortuaries." To "cases" recommended by clergy or social service executives, these morticians would for $85 provide the use of their parlors, personnel and equipment, a standard casket, and a grave...
...that was not the whole story behind the Garden free-for-all. All last fall blood was bad between Jimmy Powers and most of the rest of the usually amiable press corps that covers most of the world's biggest sporting events. Some of this bad blood spilled over a fortnight ago when Editor Powers devoted his Daily News column to a biting parable about "Snow Mike and the Seven Dwarfs," plainly identifiable as Promoter Jacobs, two members of the State boxing commission and five sports writers, among them Mr. Van Every. Fairy-tale-teller Powers related solemnly...