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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eleven million Germans [Hitler's Fascists] have openly declared that their goal is the moral destruction of Europe! . . . Germany is spending this year on munitions 100,000,000 marks more than France. ... Germany is conspiring to obtain a moratorium of her Reparations payments. The reply of France must...
...obelisk in Rio!"-and they had. Rio de Janeiro went almost mad last week. From 10 o'clock in the morning until 6 o'clock at night-when Rio Grande do Sul's victorious Dr. Getulio Vargas arrived to be proclaimed Provisional President of Brazil a million people milled through the streets, cheered the red-green- &yellow flags of Rio Grande do Sul everywhere displayed, cheered when the Federal sentries at Cattete Palace were replaced by khaki-clad revoluntionaries. From Cattete Palace he loftily announced that the new government would wreak no political vengeances, punish only...
...Montana. Princeton paleontologists under the leadership of Dr. Glenn L. Jepsen. digging in a cretaceous formation near Red Lodge in southern Montana, found some old broken eggs. They thought the eggs might have been laid 50 million years ago by an awkward dinosaur. The fragments were black, rough, pitted. Near the locality, in the same geological formation, the scientists were surprised to unearth the tooth of a mammal. Mammals are seldom found in cretaceous formations. Other dinosaur eggs known today were found seven years ago by Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews in Mongolia. His eggs were estimated to be several million...
...22?Hearing of the twelve-million-pound claim v. Great Britain of the heirs of onetime Sultan Abdul Hamid II for properties in Egypt, Iraq, Palestine & Cyprus; before a mixed tribunal with a Danish president, one Turkish and one British judge; at Istanbul...
...McCormick exhibited a rusty shipwrecked harvester in competition with spick-&-span machines, won the contest, increased his sales. Frank Munsey never once during 25 years forgot that a certain associate was deaf in his right ear. Dwight Morrow surprised Calles by being human. A University President got a second million out of a philanthropist by making sure that the first million was thoroughly publicized. Famed Realtor Joseph P. Day sold an old-fashioned office building to Steel's late great Judge Gary by a neat appeal to sentiment...