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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Government toyed with Windmiller Honnef's proposition, nearly six million Germans were drawing a dole of $13 per week. At Waltershausen, when efforts were made to apply a recent dole reduction of 10%, furious dole-drawers rioted, wounded seven policemen. Police fired on the mob, killed two, wounded twelve, restored order...
...fortunes of war are capricious," he quietly said. "Remember that there are now more than four million Communists in Germany. We have our Communists in Poland, too. Supposing the war imposed on us was disastrous, the national government was overthrown? The Communists, having nothing to lose, everything to gain, would seize the power and open the gates of the stronghold which has protected Western Europe. What would then happen? It is too atrocious to imagine...
...until 1926 a newspaperman whose novel, Adams, a story of Charlie Chaplin, had some success. He joined a Paris experimental art group specializing in cinema, produced The Italian Straw Hat, The Phantom of Moulin Rouge. International success began with talking pictures (Sous Les Toits de Paris, Le Million). For all his pictures René Clair writes the story and dialog, directs, cuts and edits. He has repeatedly rejected Hollywood contracts. Says he: "Hollywood wanted me for five years. If they are happy, they keep me; if I am unhappy, I must stay. It is not good...
Died, Alma, Marchioness of Breadalbane, 77, widow of Gavin Campbell, seventh Earl, first Marquess of Breadalbane; at her home in Oban, Scotland. Remembered was her ownership of the million-dollar set of gold plate often loaned to the Perth Railroad Station to sharpen the appetite of Queen Victoria on stopovers between Windsor and Balmoral; her feat at 74 of stalking, shooting and killing six stags with six successive shots...
...with $7,000,000 worth of damage suits, charging Coca-Cola has maliciously attempted to break Pepsi-Cola's contracts, to hurt Loft's business (TIME, May 16). Last week the Mirror stores (operated by Loft) joined the fray and brought suits for $1,250,000 in damages. A million dollars was asked for general interference with the Loft-Mirror-Pepsi-Cola contracts, charging that Coca-Colans had bribed Mirror employes, had attacked Mirror's stock, had interfered with customers, had stolen goods. The second suit for $250,000 was because of Coca-Cola's letter to Pepsi-Cola which...