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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement of the final week of the Fair was that it would open again in 1934. As money came in during the summer Impresario Rufus Dawes paid off $4,000,000 of bonds. Last week he paid another million, felt he had done pretty well to pay stockholders 52½? on the dollar (some fairs have paid only 10? on the dollar). He proposed to keep some cash in the treasury and start afresh with a "new" Fair. New concessions and new exhibits were promised the public. Other changes planned: to move the Army camp which divided the Fair...
With fearful vengeance the Law of Averages proceeded last week to settle its score against United Air Lines. In 40 million miles of flying, no passenger had been killed in a multi-motored plane of United until last month when a ship was blown up on the New York-Chicago route (TIME, Oct. 23).* Last week near Portland, Ore. another United plane of the same new type crashed into a hillside in a fog. Pilot and three passengers were killed. Copilot, stewardess and four passengers survived...
...construction of the Denver Court House by fulminating against a legal peccadillo in the architects' charter, another on the Denver tramways inflamed a great mob to a lynching mood. Bonfils was the first editor to smell the Teapot Dome disturbance, and the clothespin on his nose cost half a million dollars. When the story broke, Bishop Johnson said of the Post "Denver is the only town in the world where the main sewer enters every home." When a Senate investigating committee had kept Bonfils on the stand for three hours, he stood bolt upright, shook his finger at Senator Penrose...
...this, however, is the enchanting grist of your rampant liberal. It affords a convenient escape from the more confusing and more important problem which Sunday's election poses for the diplomats. Mr. Hitler has received a national mandate from over forty million Germans to pursue his policy of equality for Deutschland and Versailles be damned. It is true that his position is difficult, that he is forced into a stand which may easily lead to a war, and to a fatal war from the angle that Germany cannot afford war and could not, in all probability, find outside support...
...there will be an end to all this. The dollar low is accompanied by an unemployment insurance high as 4,000,000 men are added to 12,000,000 now on the British dole or its predecessor. When Mr. Bull finds himself buying food and clothing for twenty-odd million men in government workhouses and training schools, he will for one thing be less interested in the menace of foreign cutthroat competition than in the necessity of importing the necessities of Life on an Island by the most likely means at hand, monetary or otherwise. CASTOR...