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...Arthur Sunshine Home & Kindergarten for Blind Babies. This is a private institution at Summit, N. J., taking in young blind boarders from New Jersey, New York, Delaware. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Tennessee and Rhode Island. When Miss Hunt left, the institution contained about 40 children, none over twelve. No If ger could she endive, she complained to the New Jersey Commission for the Blind, the cruel ways in which- Superintendent Gladys M. Kraeuter let her blind wards be punished. Miss Hunt also carried her story to the New York State Department of Education which removed all New York's children from...
...committee has been meeting in Manhattan off & on for the past month, has adjourned each time without announce ment. It is an open secret that Pennsy and Central are willing to compromise, but New Haven, which derives a bigger pro portion of its gross revenues from passen ger traffic than any other major U. S. road (38%), is flatly opposed to any & all fare-cutting. Observers believed last week that the Eastern roads might soon eliminate the Pullman surcharge and reduce the basic one-way fare to 3? a mile, but would hold the round-trip rate to at least...
...Napoleonic wars, was captured by Italian troops and executed at Mantua in 1810 under Napoleon's orders. His tomb is a shrine for Austrian patriotism. From the Tyrol too comes Franz Hofer, an Austrian Nazi. No friend of the Habsburgs, eager to see his country absorbed by Ger- many, Nazi Hofer unwittingly added 8,000 men to the little Austrian Army, and brought the active support of France and Britain to the struggling government of Engelbert Dollfuss...
...Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a perfectly comprehensible, eminently readable memoir.* It has been approved by the bluestocking Atlantic Monthly (where part of it was serialized), and is sponsored by the Literary Guild. Though it is actually the autobiography of Ger- trude Stein, unwary readers might get all the way to the 310th and last page without discovering the mild hoax. For no author's name is on the title-page, and the book is written as if by Alice B. Toklas herself. But cognoscenti, even if they had not been forewarned by advance publicity, would recognize...
...with a 1,000-mark visa charge for Germans entering Austria. Smarting, Dollfuss considered slapping back with a tariff wall against German goods that would have hurt both Germany and Austria. Instead, giving gentle tit for brutal tat, he restored the five-schilling visa charge for Austrians going to Ger- many, forbade any to do so except for urgent business reasons. Then he turned back to the serious business of fighting the Nazi pox within Austria...