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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...siren shrank swiftly into the distance, like the airport falling away from an airplane. Above his head things grew cloudy, and he heard a voice, saying, "Not every one knows it, but at Harvard the students live in seven beautiful houses. They cost Mr. Harkness twelve million dollars. Twelve million dollars is a lot of money. In England twelve million pounds is even more money. Mr. Harkness's ancestors ran around in leopard loin-cloths, hunting wild boars for supper, and made fire to cook by rubbing two sticks together. These ancestors never knew what twelve million dollars looked like...
...been given since the days of Diaghilev and the great Nijinsky. In Manhattan the troupe played in a small side-street theatre. A few devotees went night after night but money was lost. Last season the Monte Carlo Ballet visited go cities, earned nearly a million dollars, more than the Ziegjeld Follies. Last week it opened again in Manhattan, this time in the grand manner, as a thriving, accepted organization. Scene was the Metropolitan Opera House where the Diaghilev company gave its historic performances 19 years...
...earlier a woman knows she is pregnant and can deal with her child-to-be, the better for him. Eighty per cent of a human being is perfected during the 40 weeks in the womb. From a fertilized ovum smaller than a pin head, the embryo multiplies 2,000 million times to become a 7-pound, 2O-inch baby at birth. It is during the first two months of that marvelous multiplication that malformations generally develop. Hence the pregnant woman must at that time take extraordinary care to avoid mental, emotional or physical shocks. She should drink a great deal...
...hated by his former followers and ignored by his Tory colleagues." Winston Churchill, Sir Samuel Hoare, George V, Montagu Norman are less sensational exhibits in the British tent. But before the British Intelligence Service, the Marquess of Reading and Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon. who shifted a fortune of 85 million dollars Mex. to China to escape high taxes, the author pauses, describing their exploits with a shudder not entirely justified by his facts. Stating that conservatives now "have control of the British Intelligence Service, Unofficial Observer propagates an E. Phillips Oppenheim theory of history in suggesting that Sir Basil Zaharoff...
Voting Youth up to twenty-five years old will be over fifteen million strong in 1936. Let us hope they will see their own central and essential interest in Recovery through all the fogs of catchwords and the veils of cash...