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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...17th. Both Colonel and Mme Beck were married once before, both were divorced. Because they are susceptible to bronchitis, they usually spend several weeks annually on the sunny French Riviera. Last week the Becks and the Cianos were weekending on a gay hunting party in Bialowieza, Europe's largest forest. The Colonel is known to have an aversion to hunting...
...announced that he would support the brutal anti-Semitic laws planned by Dr. Imrédy and that he was in agreement with the "peaceful aims of the Rome-Berlin axis," the Teleki Government promptly ordered police to round up the green-shirted Hungarist Party, the country's largest Nazified organization (estimated membership: 1,000,000). The party was outlawed, party headquarters and homes of members were ransacked, 500 Green Shirts were seized and "leading personalities" were bundled off to a concentration camp...
...National Peasants Federation, which claims 2,000,000 members. A one-time cavalry officer who has always taken care of the Army's wants while in office, General Avila already has the backing of a large share of Mexico's military men, who compose the third largest voting bloc...
...mile pole, suddenly rushed up,*** swept past the leaders, Porter's Mite and Bessie Franzheim's Xalapa Clown. When the dust had settled, 50,000 gasping spectators realized that a filly had won the Santa Anita Derby for the first time and had won it by the largest margin ever-five lengths. Co-favorites Porter's Mite and Impound had fought it out indeed, but for third place, one length behind Xalapa Clown...
...error, the 1937 Moody's Manual of Investments quoted the stock of the New Jersey Title Guarantee & Trust Co., sixth largest bank in Jersey City, at $974 a share instead of $9. The bank's president, Walter Pennett Gardner, was formerly judge of the New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals. Last fortnight word began to filter about Jersey City that these were not the only errors involved in the bank's history...