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There was no such company as Oshkosh Four Wheel Drive Auto Co. organized in 1919, or any other time. We and our predecessor, Oshkosh Motor Truck Manufacturing Co. have manufactured continuously since 1917 four wheel drive trucks under the registered trade-mark Oshkosh, which trucks are known as the Oshkosh Four Wheel Drive Trucks. Oshkosh trucks are widely known throughout Wisconsin and other parts...
...Harold Nicolson, M. P. Leftist Nicolson persuaded to take tea with Stooge Henlein three middleweight British Parliamentary figures notable up to now for their last-ditch championship of Anthony Eden at the time he was ousted: Lieut. Commander Reginald Fletcher (Laborite), Brigadier General Edward Louis Spears (Conservative); and Mr. Mark Patrick, former Parliamentary Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Eden's intensely loyal Under Secretary Viscount Cranborne...
...that people's emotions can be trained. The big problem is : in what direction? The committee could not tell what emotional maturity is. Emotional behavior that eliminates tensions in the individual may not please society. "Yet society is not consistent within itself. . . . Socially, it is regarded as a mark of maturity in the United States to hate communism, while in much of Russia the affectively mature hate capitalism." Emotionally mature behavior, concluded Dr. Prescott, must be a compromise between physiological, social and ethical demands...
...Angels Camp, Calaveras County, Calif., last week there was a lot of hopping being done. Local businessmen were holding the ninth Annual International Jumping Frog Jubilee. For Calaveras County miners the jubilee, inspired by Mark Twain's fabulous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," is the sports event of the year. On Angels Camp's main street thronged 35,000 spectators, including overdressed cinema celebrities to watch the two-day classic. The rules: 1) three jumps to a frog, the total distance to count as official; 2) each frog might be shaken thoroughly to discover...
...Budweiser IV, descendant of Budweiser I, a 1932 champion now regarded as the Man o' War among leapfrogs because of the long line of winners he has sired. In fine fettle and raring to go, Budweiser IV was counted on to smash the 13 ft. 5 in. mark set last year by Emmett Dalton, a mud-colored hoptoad reared on the late Will Rogers' Claremore, Okla. ranch. When the leaping subsided, it was announced that not Budweiser IV but the 1936 winner, Zip, had broken the world's record, hopping the mighty...