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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These paper figures were no index of the true state of Germany's trade troubles. Faced with the cost of providing Germany with a million fully-equipped troops, faced with the expense of a grandiose public-works scheme, shrewd conservative Dr. Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht, Reich Minister of Economics, has long been doing sleight of hand with Germany's foreign trade. With gold in the Reichsbank dwindling toward zero, Germany, since the rise of raw-material prices in 1935, has had to export finished goods at uneconomical prices in order to get currency to buy abroad such...
...there may be "50 million movie-going males" from 15 to 65 in this country, and I am not going to be the one to say this is a lie. But I happen to be one of them, and my wife wants to know what is all this about Mae West and me. Now I have never seen one of her moving pictures. Honest and cross my heart. I have told my wife this, too, but she just wags her head in a kind of "You're not kiddin' me, Brother" fashion and says she knows what...
...believe if I were you I would think things over, swallow my pride, and apologize. At least I would point out, if I could, that some of the 50 million were French or German or something and that there are still some nice fellows and timid souls in the U. S. who don't indulge in Mae West...
...Gordon Low who, after she had met Boy Scout Founder Robert Baden-Powell, founded the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Ga. 27 years ago. There are now some 400,000 Girl Scouts in the U. S., one for every two Boy Scouts. Outside the U. S. may be found another million Girl Scouts or Girl Guides. According to The Girl Scout News Sheet, Mrs. Low was "handicapped by deafness and later by a fatal illness, by the indifference of many friends and the blindness of others," lugubriously and correctly predicted the year of her death...
...money, soon owned a tailor shop, a grocery store, became a wholesaler for household goods, made a small fortune speculating in foodstuffs during the Civil War, a larger one importing petticoat lace from Switzerland. Needing little prompting, his sons, assured by their father that they would each make a million dollars, entered the business as soon as they got out of short pants...