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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, in Germany last week it became known that one bishop, out of the whole German hierarchy, had deliberately abstained from voting in last month's plebiscite. That one, Bishop Johann Baptist Sproll, head of the Church in Württemberg, had immediately been informed by the secret police that his security could not be guaranteed. He left his episcopal seat, Rottenburg, but presently returned. Last week the Nazi governor of Württemberg, Wilhelm Murr, demanded that Bishop Sproll resign his post, on the grounds that his "disloyalty" to the State was a violation of the 1933 concordat...
...Chicago a month ago Tim McCoy's Real Wild West & Rough Riders of the World was let loose with charging horses, yippiding cowboys, lassos thrown to rope in the general public. In Washington last week McCoy's broncos seemed all too sadly busted. First, F. Stewart Stranahan of Providence, R. L, with a $17,500 claim against the show, threw it into receivership. Then, padding at Stranahan's heels, a delegation of McCoy's Sioux Redmen visited Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier, threatened a sitdown strike against Tim McCoy unless he: 1) came through with...
Next Flynn got wind of the lucrative "recruiting" racket. A more or less benevolent breed of blackbirders, recruiters do not enslave native boys but cart them away, presumably with parental permission, to work in the gold fields at approximately ten shillings a month. For the recruiter, the bounty is ?20 a head for boys willing to indenture themselves for three years. Flynn saw to it that most of his boys signed up for three years. He did it with biscuits, teaching the boys to expect one biscuit when he held up one finger, two for two, three for three. When...
...board, and 1935 Big Steel lost $100,000,000. New plant construction & improvement took $123,000,000 in 1937, is expected to amount to $80,000,000 more in 1938. With steel production again on the skids, this added up to a pressing need for cash. Three months ago U. S. Steel borrowed $50,000,000 from Pittsburgh, Chicago and Manhattan banks. Last week, to retire the loans and get the money for 1938's construction, Myron Taylor's successor, young Edward R. Stettinius Jr., announced his first big financial operation: flotation...
Latest British reviewer to burst into best-selling mothhood is Howard Spring of the London Evening Standard, whose "Book of the Month" choice is a lively competitor of the organized book clubs. With publication last month of My Son, My Son!, plain English readers were pleased as they had not been since J. B. Priestley unfolded from his cocoon. My Son, My Son! is a sad story. But with its generous length (649 pages), plot and number of characters, its easy. Dickensian narrative, a fortifying moral, the story carries its own self-comforting device- not unlike...