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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connections are nationwide, and the Legion membership is now in its political prime. He has an executive record uncomplicated by such national issues as Relief, Money, Neutrality. Above all he has absolute mastery of Indiana through a machine that is as old-fashioned in its efficiency as it is modern in its setup. Indiana has only 14 electoral votes to offer, only 28 delegates in the National Democratic Convention. But Paul McNutt can count on delivering these white chips with greater certainty than even Cordell Hull can be sure of Tennessee or Jack Garner of Texas. At this stage...
...Russians decide to fight for keeps, the barren Mongolian plateau will see its biggest battles since the days of Ghengis Khan. In preparation for that day, Russia has declared a virtual protectorate over the Mongol Peoples' Republic, raised a Mongol Army of 250,000 and equipped it with modern military gadgets-artillery, tanks, machine guns, righting planes. The Mongol Army's greatest accomplishment has been to keep some 350,000 of Japan's crack troops and much of its best equipment tied up, far from the front...
Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor ("Tragic") (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting: Victor, 8 sides). First modern recording of a work not frequently played which nonetheless stands up alongside the Schubert Eighth ("Unfinished") and Seventh ("Of Heavenly Lengths") symphonies...
...That this paragon of modern mechanics will be priced at no more than the cost of a good team of hay burners: somewhere between...
...What apes we are! We copy those we hate. We fight evil with evil and become the evil that we fight. ... All this we do, thinking Jesus to be a visionary idealist. He is not. His ethic shows a more realistic insight into what is going on in this modern world than does our boasted hardheadedness...