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...General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff and a handful of moth-eaten followers, including Adolf Hitler, marched out of the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich and tried to take the Town Hall. Since the National Socialist Party came to power, Nov. 8, Beer Hall Putsch's Eve, has been both a sentimental and a political occasion. Last year, just after Hitler had harangued his old comrades, a time bomb exploded in Bürgerbräu Keller, killing seven unimportant people, injuring 63, and Germany used the incident to fan hatred of Britain. This year there...
...years since a Republican was elected Governor of New York,* Empire State Republicans have become connoisseurs of defeat. Close races, hot races, dull races-Republicans lost them all. As years passed, the moth-eaten oldsters who ran the party were succeeded by youngsters, but their goal of dignified defeat and their manner of well-bred defeatism remained the same...
Last week, after taking it out of moth balls twice before when times were good, Chicago's Washington Park-with all the fanfare of a Mardi Gras-staged a $62,000 revival of the American Derby, aimed to make it once more the richest three-year-old race...
Last week the Army went back to field uniform (khaki or O. D.). Issued at Washington was an order putting the new blues and all other formal uniforms back into moth balls except for one kind of occasion-social functions at the White House...
...cheerful On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen, sung by Author Johnnie Mercer, who never quite explains the nature of his raucous reunion, and Bing Crosby, who continually calls for a gypsy moth...