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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe and Asia, a number of small figures patterned after the odious Jewish caricatures of Julius Streicher's Der Stünner. The players shake the dice in turn, move the Jews across the map by stages determined by the dice. The winner: the first player to get all his Jews out of Germany and into Palestine...
...Radio Operator Scruggs kept trying at odd times to raise Mrs. Hall or DeGhett. Last week as the ship lay in Hoboken, Scruggs caught De Ghett's ear. Pitcairn had told DeGhetl about the gifts. Here they were at last Scruggs advised him to hurry over and get "the stuff." "We're sailing tomorrow," he said, "and you ought to get it tonight. I'll leave it with the fellow at the head of the pier. . . . Try to get here about...
...last week, with wheels down, another Frobisher dropped down on roomy Croydon. Its legs collapsed, and it slid ignominiously to a stop on its belly. This time the passengers, 21 of them, were plain scared, thoroughly shaken up. Imperial imperturbably grounded the 234-mile-an-hour ships to get the bugs out of the landing gear. At week's end the ships were restored to service. The mishap, said bland Imperial, was "due to the unusual state ol the airdrome surface, not to a mechanical defect." Nineteen-year-old Croydon is one of the oldest and best-tended...
...original "You'd be surprised!" were written as "news flashes" in slangy Hellenistic Greek and Aramaic, that they should be rendered today in journalese. Thus he translates "Good Samaritan" as "good sport," "wise virgins" as "smart girls," "laying up a treasure" as "making a pile," "repent" as "get wise to yourself," "Give us our daily bread" as "Give us good bread, fresh daily." Dr. Bailey's Gospels variously call miracles "the breaks," "doing wonders" and "indications...
...civic bodies behind the plan, including the principal churches (Methodist, Catholic, Christian Science). Although a collection was to be taken to finance the Town Warming, no one expected it to amount to much: Jewel Tea Co. would make up the deficit. The plan itself was simply to get as many Barringtonites as possible to go to a series of lectures (free to all regardless of "economic status, or any other reason") in the High School Auditorium, with an invocation by a local minister and community singing...