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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor M. Clifford Townsend last month convened Indiana's Legislature in a special session to vote some of the State's widely advertised $25,000,000 surplus into a pump-priming building program. Of greater interest to most Indianians was a much smaller piece of business-reconsideration of a highly unpopular Townsend act called the Gadget Law. Every Indiana motorist was required to buy from the State for 25? a celluloid container for his registration card, which he had to stick on his windshield so that his name and address clearly showed. Aside from the probable graft involved...
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Aside from the stockmarket, official Nazi statistics showed last week that the shrinking foreign trade of Greater Germany has now reached a volume slightly less than the trade of Germany alone before Austria was absorbed. The comfortable surplus of Reich exports over imports last year has now become a deficit of some $40,000,000. If the future looked rosy even to Economic Four-Year-Plan Administrator General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, he would hardly have issued, as he did last week, a decree obliging everyone in Germany to turn over every last gold coin to the State...
Died. Prince Franz Paul I, 85, who four months ago abdicated as ruler of the 65 square mile principality of Liechtenstein, which snuggles between Greater Germany and Switzerland; at Castle Felsburg, Czechoslovakia; after a lengthy illness...
Last week, as the first Nazi-sponsored Salzburg Festival opened, the extent of this difference became apparent. Cancellation of bookings from outside Greater Germany (including nearly 50% of those from England and the U. S.) converted the festival from an international tourist event into a dominantly German celebration. Places of absent foreign visitors were taken by droves of enthusiastic Nazis, including hundreds of members of Propaganda Minister Goebbels' "Strength through Joy" movement who had been granted specially reduced rates. The elaborate permanent stages formerly used for the Reinhardt Faust and Jedermann productions had been torn down, and the street...