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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...content with just one big stadium for outdoor shows and one big hall for indoor shows, the Nazis will have no less than five stadia and four halls-a place for everything-when they get through building in 1943. Not yet completed are the Exhibition Hall, the Kultur Hall, the Nazi Congress Hall, the March Field where an army corps will be able to maneuver, or the New Stadium for party sports. But Nazis do pretty well with what is already...
Equipped, inevitably, with a story in which the hero is torn between loyalty to Boys Town and to his old life, represented by a bank-robbing older brother, the picture focuses principally on Father Flanagan. In real life, Father Flanagan has never been ashamed to publicize his enterprise getting celebrities like Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and the late Will Rogers to visit Boys Town, sending the school band out to tour the country. Final sequence in the picture, with characteristic fidelity to fact, leaves Father Flanagan planning to enlarge Boys Town's population to 500 and hoping to get...
...Paris, Georges Meunier saw a dog coming towards him. whose looks he did not like at all. Fearing that the dog was about to bite him, Georges Meunier bit the dog first. Police arrested him. Said Georges Meunier: "I decided to get him before he got me. Anyhow, I never knew it was an offense to bite...
Sailors traditionally raise hell in port, and David Frazeur. a seaman on the Steel Navigator, is a traditional sailor. When his ship docked at a port in tropical Sumatra about a month ago, he went ashore like a tidal wave. Next day, having managed to get back aboard, he awoke to find in his bunk a scaly, lizard-like creature about a foot long, with a stubby snout and a tongue that looked like a worm. Seaman Frazeur greeted the creature with no amazement, named it Pandora, fed it on milk and egg yolk. When he went back...
...whole year's boss on an election or whether a master's wife's baby will be a boy or girl. Once they smeared treacle (molasses) on the bell rope and the whole school rapturously watched Principal Hoxton grab it. For their misdeeds the boys get demerits, which they must wipe off before they are graduated...