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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea that Capital with its trusts and combines was milking the People with artificially high prices, but the Swedish reaction to this was not to set up Labor as a counter-demagogue. Instead, taking its famed Middle Way, Swedish consumers banded together in the Kingdom's now widely known cooperatives. These in effect yardstick the food prices that can be charged in Sweden, for their members number about one-third of the population, and the Swedish cooperatives now operate the largest bakeries, canning plants and many other agencies for producing consumer goods...
Adolf Hitler last week let it be known what he was going to do with his part of Poland...
...famed modern philosophers and has soapboxed for innumerable causes, few people know John Dewey. To his intimate friends he is a sweet and lovable character. His absentmindedness is fabulous. He sometimes shows up a week late for appointments, goes to the wrong room to meet his classes, has been known to wander into ladies' washrooms. He often goes out into the snow without rubbers or muffler, but rarely catches cold. Despite his absentmindedness, he is scrupulous about fulfilling obligations, never breaks a promise. He used to make it a rule never to read manuscripts submitted to him for criticism...
Seeking Divorce. Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta, 53, toad-shaped Mexican muralist otherwise known as Diego Rivera; and his third wife, Frida Kahlo Rivera, 29, svelte German-Mexican modernist painter, classed by Diego among the four or five best in the world, owner of the Coyoacán haven where Leon Trotsky spent two years in exile; in Mexico City. Explained Muralist Rivera, his pet monkey perched on his shoulder: "There is no change in the magnificent relations between us. We are doing it in order to improve Frida...
...briars-in pursuit of a pack of beagles who were in pursuit of a wily hare. Local farmers would never go in for such crosscountry foolishness, but if they did, they would call it a rabbit hunt. In sport parlance this mixture of old clothes and cocktail breaths is known as beagling...