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Stuttgart is the old city where, in the heyday of the Nazi Party's rise to world power, the Auslandsdeutschen-Germans living abroad-met each year to plan their fifth-column tactics. Last week a half hour's raid left extensive areas of Stuttgart afire, presumably including the Daimler-Benz motor plants, the Bosch ignition works, the mass-production auto factory of Opel and many other war-important industries...
Since the late great Lillian Nordica's gaslit heyday (1890-1910) U.S. woman's weight has dwindled. One result : a scarcity of great U.S. Wagnerian sopranos. Today few U.S. women singers have the beef and brawn that helped Nordica and her famous U.S. contemporaries (Olive Fremstad,* Emma Eames, etc.) to shout down batteries of Wagnerian trumpets and trombones...
...heyday of 1923, when 197,252 pianolas (more than 50% of all the pianos sold in the U.S.) were sold in a single year, the pianola industry hired the greatest pianists, such as Paderewski, to record their performances on perforated paper. It also hired such early jazzers as J. Lawrence Cook and Harlem's historic James P. Johnson. But as the pianola gave ground to the phonograph, the pianola industry could no longer afford to pay for personal recordings...
American democracy's Big Show is over. With all but a few scattered Western returns in, Fatal Tuesday follows the pattern of every off-year election save that of 1934 since the Civil War--resurgence of the President's loyal opposition. The Republican Party, which in the heyday of the New Deal held but a third of Congress and carried but two states in the fight for the presidency, is once again on the threshold of national power. Senate Republicans, while still a clear minority, have risen from complete impotence to a challenging position by picking up at least nine...
After: The committee took credit for saving industry 30,000,000 man-hours of paperwork a year (enough, had they been productive, to turn out more than 1,000 bombers). One hundred twenty forms were eliminated, 132 more simplified, reducing the number of forms 20% from the heyday of red tape, eliminating more than 50% of the actual paperwork required. One of the defunct forms would have cost one industry alone 400,000 man-hours a year; it would have cost the Government 100,000 more man-hours. As for the "bootleggers," the committee wryly reported that they had been...