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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a certain amount of deplorable lynching in our own Southland, but every intelligent American vigorously condemns this practice. Yet, bad as this is, the number of deaths resulting from lynching do not amount to more than 25 per year. In Hitlerland, they have a "sport" known as Gantlet Running, (TIME, Dec. 5th) where 62 innocent people were tortured and twelve killed in one week, the figure running into thousands each year...
...guns and shells bearing the well-known trade-mark Skoda, made in Czechoslovakia will henceforth go only to those countries in goosestep with Hitler. The French Schneider-Creusot interests, which since 1920 have had a big interest in Skoda, Europe's second largest munitions works, last week sold their shares to CzechoSlovak interests. For thus recognizing "changed conditions" in eastern Europe, the former French shareholders were paid...
Colwell Charles R. Apted, Superintendent of Caretakers, said that all cases of the fraud were reported by students, for the most part in the Law School, who were living not in the Yard or in Houses but in boarding houses or apartments. Until "Geer" is known to be operating within University precincts, trespassing, the racket is exclusively a Cambridge police problem. Colonel Apted provided the town inspectors with a photograph of the swindler to help them in tracing...
Born in Hungary and educated at the University of Budapest, Raisz received his doctor's degree at Columbia and has been associated with the Department of Geography for a number of years. His maps and illustrations in the University's various publications have made him well known around Cambridge...
...Britain's Genealogists' Magazine, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms Anthony Richard Wagner produced a genealogy showing Neville Chamberlain to be a 19th-generation descendant of Edward I (1239-1307), who was known alternately as "Longshanks" and "The English Justinian...