Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind the two editions of Mein Kampf lay a publishing battle as hard-fought as many an early Hitler struggle. Having made scrupulous arrangements with the copyright holders, Reynal & Hitchcock applied for a temporary injunction against Stackpole, which claimed-among other things-that Hitler's Battle now belongs to the public domain. Last week a Federal judge in Manhattan denied the injunction. Both publishers meanwhile battled against time, with the result that both translations are hurried, occasionally inaccurate, always heavy and Germanic in idiom. The Stackpole version is somewhat easier reading, the Reynal & Hitchcock job has the advantage...
...last year Chaplain Phillips prayed only four times in the Senate. Reason: by Senate rule he prayed only on legislative days; and (because the Senate often recesses without adjourning) one legislative day sometimes went on for weeks. Last week, overjoyed by a resolution introduced by West Virginia's hard-bitten old politico, Senator Neely, and passed unanimously, Chaplain Phillips was, according to its terms, praying every working...
...that it needed an airline to speed mail and passengers between cities in its best populated strip just north of the U. S. border, its smart decision was that it would do no experimenting, would cash in instead on what U. S. airlines had learned, little by little, the hard way. Beyond its own necessity for the transcontinental route, it had the added responsibility of hooking up its centres with Imperial Airways' transatlantic service scheduled for opening this summer...
...Frindsbury, England, 20-year-old Postman Harry Cuckoo was arrested, put on probation for two years for throwing away Christmas cards and letters, instead of delivering them. Harry Cuckoo's defense: "I found it hard to find my way about . . . there was thick snow on the ground...
...been deflected from money-making by social conscience or social anger. By-blow of a provincial actress, adopted into a Cockney fishmonger family, he quit school at 12, worked as newsboy, printer's devil, hod carrier, milkman's helper, joined the army at 18, got plenty of hard knocks as he rose from jingo Boer War correspondent to London newspaper editor to rich writer. But said Edgar Wallace in later years: "There cannot be much wrong with a society which made possible the rise of . . . Edgar Wallace...