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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observers opined that apprehension over possible annexation by his new neighbor. Greater Germany, lay behind his move. Prince Franz Paul has no desire to be on the throne if Nazi Germany gobbles Liechtenstein. His wife, whom he married in 1929, is a wealthy Viennese Jewess and local Liechtenstein Nazis have already singled her out as their anti-Semitic "problem." The new Prince has no Jewish connections, is unmarried...
...scarce as tropical snowstorms are cases of fertility in mules. Like many other hybrids, the cross between a horse and an ass rarely breeds, whether mated with another mule, ass or with a horse. Hence, when a mule belonging to Don Salvador Calero foaled in Buga, Colombia, last week, local veterinarians were astonished, called it the first such case in the history of the republic. Awe-struck Colombians gathered at Calero's stable, gladly paid admission to see the mule foal. To the ignorant and superstitious the unnatural event was disturbing...
...could a Jewish congregation. A Congregational group has the same freedom, but the Congregational-Christian Church-like U. S. Baptist bodies-may hold mortgages on its constituent churches so that they may not pass out of its control. Methodist churches are held by national bodies; Presbyterian churches by local trustees, reverting to local presbyteries if they are dissolved. Church laws apart, State laws of incorporation may limit a church to the activities for which it was specifically incorporated...
...where schools are controlled by local boards of education, Dewey's ideas have made slow and sporadic progress. Czechoslovakia, which has a national school system, moved more swiftly. In 1929 Dr. Príhoda was appointed to head a national school reform committee by Socialist Education Minister Ivan Dérer. First step of the reformers was to start experimental progressive schools in a few cities. So rapidly did the progressive movement spread that by 1933 the Ministry of Education decreed a revision of the curriculum for the entire country, permitted progressive methods in all schools...
...ranks of the puzzlers. His contribution was a 760-page volume that attempted a dual task: 1) to trace the careers of the Democratic and Republican parties through the four decades after the Civil War; 2) to draw a composite portrait of the professional politicians, party leaders, spoilsmen, local bosses...