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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German goods, have received full and preferential interest transfers. As for Adolf Hitler, one of his war cries has been against the iniquity of "interest slavery," the payment of interest being tainted in his mind with a stigma not unlike that attached by President Roosevelt to hoarding. So hot grew the squabbling of U. S. private creditors for their interest in Berlin last week that Dr. Schacht rushed off for a rest to Kiel. "I admit the necessity of paying interest on borrowed capital," said he, "but the common good should be considered before all else...
Austrian Nazis grew cockier day by day. Small but noisy bombs were exploded in dozens of cities. Crowds rioted in front of government concentration camps. A mysterious fire broke out in Parliament Building at Vienna, was quickly put out. Bravely the Dollfuss Government fought back. A secret report on Nazi preparations and propaganda was sent to the Governments of France, Italy, Britain, who remained as one in their desire to keep out of a very dangerous business. There was no secret about the note sent Germany demanding a written recognition of Austrian independence and a guarantee of nonintervention...
Began President Conant: "An eventful and significant epoch in Harvard history has closed." That epoch dated back to 1909 when Charles William Eliot turned over to President Lowell a Harvard faculty unrivaled in intellectual prestige. Under the ambitious, Aladdin-like administration of President Lowell Harvard grew big and rich. Its faculty swelled from 600 to 1,692, its student body from 4,000 to 8,000, its endowment from $20,000,000 to $126,000,000. New buildings mushroomed-libraries, dormitories, museums, laboratories. On the human side, President Lowell's heart was with his undergraduates and he wanted...
Meanwhile Minister de Monzie and Accuser Henriot had not yet fought their duel, but the Government grew so nervous as debate on the Stavisky scandal was resumed that 5,000 foot and mounted police were thrown around the Chamber of Deputies. Angry citizens resumed their anti-Government demonstrations, shouted hour after hour in the direction of the Chamber "Assassins! Thieves! Staviskys!" Royalist demonstrators shouting "Down with the Republic!" and "Long live the Due de Guise!" [the Bourbon pretender to the Throne of France who lives in Belgium] smashed windows, tore up paving stones which they hurled at the police...
...more famed contemporaries, George Cruikshank and John Leech. His son Richard became the famed Punch illustrator. Every week at least 200,000 people look with lacklustre eyes on "Dicky" Doyle's best-known drawing-the cover for Punch, designed in 1844. John Doyle's little grandson grew up to be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...