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...Murder Farm." In Geneva a session of the Assembly of the League of Nations especially convened to end the everlasting war between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco achieved nothing more last week than an international radio hookup over which League statesmen mouthed fervent peace appeals...
...President, stung to rage as never before, brought suit and was awarded 800 marks ($185) for defamation from the imp who is now Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. Last week by a supreme irony, it was Dr. Goebbels who, speaking over a nationwide hookup one morning, broke to the German people the news they least wanted to hear. Shouted Dr. Goebbels: "Deutches Volk! Reichsprdzident von Hindenburg ist um 9 Uhr vormittags in die Ewigkeit fortgegangen! German people! President von Hindenburg at 9 a. m. passed into eternity...
...Alps, a bad case of jitters sent Vice Leader Rudolf Hess of the Nazi Party, who is often called "Hitler's Other Self," dashing up to Königsberg, the picturesque capital of Old Paul's East Prussia. Shouting like one possessed over a nation-wide radio hookup, Orator Hess roared that the Storm Troops are not military, but that Leader Hitler has a right to condemn even guiltless Storm Troopers to death because "in a military mutiny every tenth man is punished, irrespective of whether the bullets strike the guilty or the innocent!" Fearful that some kind...
Five months after they introduced their feature as a sustaining program at $100 a week apiece, Impersonators Gosden and Correll signed up with Pepsodent toothpaste to broadcast over a national NBC hookup six nights a week for $100,000 a year. Amos and Andy moved to New York's Harlem and became a national phenomenon from...
...honor: Walter Williams, aging president of Missouri University, founder of the journalism school, president of NEA 40 years ago. White-haired "Dean" Williams, 69, famed as "the university president who never went to college," was bed ridden at home. He made his speech of welcome over a special radio hookup. The customary five medals of honor for distinguished journalistic service were presented by the school to: The Melbourne (Australia) Argus, for being ". . . fair and tolerant, liberal . . . accurate . . . generous and kindly . . . progressive without losing touch with the past . . . eminent in Australia and throughout the English-speaking world." The Des Moines Register...