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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Remarque and 2,327 other passengers. Some of them had slept on the floor, some on cots in the public rooms. Mr. Morgan, who usually takes a suite, had occupied a small room containing one small bed. But, said he, it was "the size I always sleep in at home. Really, I don't have a bed half an acre large." Mr. Warner was in a warlike mood, bluntly maintained that "the liberty and freedom we obtained from fighting the British we will now have to fight with them to retain. . . . Isolation is, for us, the destruction of civilization...
August 24. Hitler flew back to his Chancellery from Berchtesgaden; Ribbentrop, the Soviet agreement signed and sealed, flew home from Moscow...
Patients' Progress. All last week, ambulances and lumbering green busses carried convalescents and minor cases out of large London hospitals, drove them home, or off to private houses in the countryside. At least 300,000 hospital beds stand empty, all over Britain, ready to receive victims of the first air raid...
...worked overtime. One super-diligent engineer stayed on the job for 48 hours straight following Hitler's epochal Reichstag speech. Someone finally made him go home. When he had been asleep only an hour, his telephone rang. "This," said a velvet voice, "is the Crossley radio survey. Will you tell me what program you have been listening...
...home comment on the news, NBC picked big-name specialists General Hugh Johnson and Dorothy Thompson. In her broadcast of last Friday night, Miss Thompson sounded as if she were itching to get her fingers in Hitler's hair. When Commentator Thompson was just getting warmed up, the first important application of U. S. radio's self-imposed censorship code occurred. St. Louis' KWK cut Miss Thompson off the air. Said KWK's president, Robert Convey, as though he might have to give Hitler time to answer her: "It was our belief that Miss Thompson...