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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third primaries one of two Republicans, either incumbent Mayor Harold H. Burton or John O'Donnell of the School Board. Behind this novelty was a pretty piece of Democratic boggling. Two equally powerful party factions fought themselves into the ground, refused to compromise. Desperate leaders turned to the local version of Texas' Maury Maverick, Councilman William C. Reed, begged him to accept the nomination. On a strict "no strings" platform, Mr. Reed accepted tentatively, if a $25,000 campaign fund were raised without macing the utilities, gamblers, contractors, racketeers. Hampered by this restriction, leaders did not find enough...
Germany has 12,580,000 radio sets licensed at $9.87 a year. In the last year almost 3,000,000 new radios were sold, but fewer than 1,000,000 were the Reich-backed People's Radios, geared to local reception. Of the rest, despite Nazi frowning on broadcasts from abroad, 1,500,000 were all-wave sets designed to receive foreign short-wave broadcasting, bringing the number of all-wave receivers in Germany...
...freestyle, non-network jumble of 27 Government and private stations, by its nature is proof against such hurts as the bombing of a central transmitter. Some standby Government transmitters have been built in remote country locations, and equipped with Diesel power units for use in case of bombed local power lines. One function of these new transmitters may be to outshout Germany's mighty, new 500-kilowatt station, pulled out of the Nazi hat two months ago by Joseph Goebbels at Oldenburg, near the Dutch border, 30 miles from the North...
...Europe as it had at any time during the last war. Last week the A. P. sent a man 350 miles from Rome to the heel of Italy to get a 200-word story whose chief item of interest was that the Italian remount service was inspecting the local donkeys. In July 1914, Karl von Wiegand cabled the U. P. 138 words on the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia and was called down for wasting tolls...
...self-appointed censor of local manners and morals was also a leader in the Council's attempt last fall to make Harvard a separate city...