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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kidnapped him in Brooklyn in mid-February. From Brooklyn, said he, he had been taken to the home of Detective Ellis Parker, then removed to the mental colony. There Detective Parker had persuaded him to sign a new 25-page confession, urging that he would make a million dollars out of it, promising that Governor Hoffman would help him escape punishment...
...three great steps toward FREEDOM AND PEACE. That these three steps had rashly violated Germany's most solemn treaty obligations and had thereby unbalanced the peace of Europe seemed to disturb no one inside the Fatherland. Once again Germany had a real Army, with more than half a million men cocked and primed to strike at a minute's notice. Once again a tough, hard-hitting German Navy was in the making. Once again the Rhineland, sacred soil to every German, was back in the Fatherland's military fold, with German guns and German gunners muzzling...
Announcement of Frank S. Deland '36 as Senior Class Agent makes timely a survey of the Class Fund Plan to date. Its material accomplishment has been great, and the million already collected speaks for itself...
Died. John Stanger Heiss Oscar Asche, 64, author, producer, leading man of the historic musicomedy Chu Chin Chow; of a heart attack; in Marlow, England. Chu Chin Chow opened in London in 1916, ran straight through the War, did not close until 1921. Three million people saw the show, including thousands of Allied soldiers who made it a martial institution. For a consecutive run, its record of 2,238 performances is surpassed only by the Manhattan engagement of Abie's Irish Rose (2,532 performances). Two months ago Producer Asche, who made $1,000,000 from Chu Chin Chow...
...Sapolio advertising. His parody of Longfellow's Excelsior served as a handout in 1877. The original Spotless Town jingles were submitted to Morgan's in 1899 by a Cornell undergraduate named Eraser, later a partner in the advertising agency of Blackman & Co. Given away by the million in grocery stores, these and later lyrics were sung by vaudeville troupes, dramatized for church and school entertainments, clinched Morgan's thesis on "How to Become Great" in the company's Witchcraft magazine in 1904: "Diligence, Perseverance, and Genius May Be of Some Help, but it is Ingenious Advertising...