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...ln Syria pro-Vichy and pro-De Gaulle forces jockeyed for position in the face of repeated reports that Germany had demanded the right to land troops for passage to Iraq...
...ln a signed newspaper piece last week, Chief Hoover wrote: "George ('Machine Gun') Kelly is supposed to have coined the name G-men while Special Agents of the FBI were pursuing him for the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel of Oklahoma City. Kelly and his wife had fled from town to town until Kelly, who was a blowhard and a coward, got panicky...
...ln turning them down, publishers have made historic mistakes. All Quiet on the Western Front was rejected on the grounds that the public was tired of War books. Stokes thought so little of Beau Geste that it did not copyright the book. The first edition of The Story of Philosophy was 1,500 copies, was only printed after a bookseller promised to take 500 copies. The Story of San Michele was first listed as a travel book and only 500 copies imported from England...
...ln June for the first time since Recovery set in, residential building failed to show a gain over the year before...
...ln the U. S., 20 States have income taxes. In these States the maximum normal tax on maximum incomes does not exceed 8%. Thus the U. S. citizen in all cases is liable to much lower total income tax than the British citizen...