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...national frenzy to grab neighbors' territory was started by Adolf Hitler's Sudeten grab. The rest of Central Europe thereupon went grab crazy, Hungary getting 4,800 sq. mi. of Czechoslovakia, Poland getting 400. Like the 1937 U. S. sit-down fad, the grab craze has now infected people who have less & less excuse to be infected...
...zaro Cárdenas, proletarian President of Mexico, last week published a decree confiscating 1,723 hectares (7 sq. mi.) of a ranch near El Aguaji belonging to farmer loving U. S. Representative William Lemke of North Dakota, candidate of the 1936 Union Party (Father Coughlin) for President...
Last week the rural broadcasting scheme revived when the Government installed receiving sets in 120 villages of the 573-sq.-mi. Delhi district. Installed in village chowpals (clubrooms, usually a raised earthen platform some 50 feet square with a portico at one end), instruments are kept in locked rooms, loudspeakers installed out of reach. Each evening at sunset an automatic device switches on the sets, turns them off after one hour of blaring. Automatic operation is necessary to prevent ryots from damaging the sets either through ignorance or anger...
...give "Service with a Smile" (their Association's motto) ; in swapping routes (a man from Maine exchanging with an Arizonian if their local postmasters approved); in boasting about the number of boxes they visit (Mrs. Annie Massey, 53, of Bay Springs, Miss. on one stretch of her 50 mi., 165-box route, has to travel 17 miles and cross: eleven bridges in an area of one squre mile); in marveling at the streamlined never-stick R. F. D. box displayed at the convention by Farmer Adney Coleman of Evergreen, Ala., which looked as if it really wouldn...
...Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here, using "heck"' to fill out the line, "What the - do we care!" Unlike city and town carriers, they did not agitate for a 40-hr. week, because a P. O. on W. gets $1,800 a year for a 30-mi. route but only $20 more per year for every added mile.-* For a lot of them 40 hours would mean longer routes and more P. O. on W. would have to be laid off. On the whole most of them like life...