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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspapers would think it worth-while to run contests among a population group in which only 2% regularly read the papers, but the Commercial Appeal ("Largest Circulation in the South"-now around 126,000) is not out for immediate gains. Its late, revered Publisher Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney, who died in 1926, never tired of preaching that the South would progress only when it taught its farmers to diversify their crops, raise most of their own food. That is the key-note of the Plant-to-Prosper campaign, started in 1933 by the Commercial Appeal now promoted also...
Next to Stalin the most powerful man in Soviet Russia for the past two years has been Nikolai Yezhov, Commissar for Internal Affairs since September 1936. Comrade Yezhov is the man who in 1937 put on the largest and costliest purge to date, for which he provided the evidence, the victims and the executioners. Last week a small, back-page notice in Izvestia informed Russians that Comrade Yezhov had been relieved of his post at his own request, would be superseded by Laurentius Pavlovich Beria, until last summer head of the political police in the Transcaucasus, since then Yezhov...
...told a whale of a story. His life aboard ship had been clear sailing as far as Shark Bay. There Captain Johannes Smith and his crew found that the bay was overhunted: killing many of the whales that were left (small ones and cows with their young) was prohibited. Largest taken the whole cruise was 49 feet long, 14 feet above the minimum. Captain & crew were tempted to kill undersize whales. According to Lieutenant Midtlyng, they did. Each day the high-bowed, gun-mounted chaser boats set out, each night returned, tugging their targets behind...
...general : "We implore that you not relegate our activities to a subsidiary position to men's work in such a way as to limit us." While Methodist committees last week explored ways & means of settling this and other questions, 1,300 Methodists gathered in Nashville, Tenn. for the largest banquet the city had ever seen. It was the first time the three branches of Methodism had met officially since the Methodist Protestants split off in 1828 (over lay representation) and the Southern Methodists broke away in 1845 (over slavery). Two Negro Methodist bishops sat among the banquet guests...
...Redskins, with music by Barnee Breeskin, band leader at the swank Shoreham Hotel, and words by one-time Cinemactress Corinne Griffith (Declasse, The Lady in Ermine), wife of Big Chief Marshall. The nine other owners of big-league professional teams, well aware that the Redskins have attracted the largest crowds (440,000 in 13 games) this season, are considering rah-rah songs for next year...