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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobiles for the use of delegates, called on Henry Ford to reject the Supreme Order of the German Eagle awarded him by Hitler's Reich last fortnight on his 75th birthday. (Same day, Mr. Ford & wife sailed on a lake freighter for a month at his Huron Mountain estate near Marquette, Mich...
...those with no head for heights, all mountain climbers are crazy; but climbers divide themselves into two schools : sportsmen who try to reach their objective with a minimum of risk, and danger-loving fatalists who want to do it the hard...
Perennial battleground of the ancient world was Armageddon, which lies about ten miles south of Nazareth, 15 miles from the Mediterranean coast of Palestine. The Hebrew word is har magiddo, which may originally have meant "fruitful mountain" or "desirable city." Megiddo, the name by which the site is known to modern archeologists, guards the pass from Egypt through the Carmel ridge to the once-rich valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris. There, according to the Old Testament, "Pharoaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria" and Josiah, in disguise, battled against him. * There Thutmose III of Egypt...
Last week it was hot in most of the U. S. In Phoenix, Ariz, it was 108°. From Arizona State Prison, lying in well-wooded mountain country near Florence, Warden John Eager wired Governor Rawghlie Clement Stanford: "It is a situation I can no longer control." The Governor hastily sent the National Guard to build a stockade near the prison. Reason: Because of a shortage of cells 200 trusties have been sleeping outside the prison walls, 15 had escaped in six weeks, five more had just escaped. Said Warden Eager: "You can't call it an escape, exactly...
When he is not guest-conducting at one of Germany's numerous opera-houses and concert-halls (he is also one of Germany's top-notch orchestra leaders), Strauss lives quietly and well with his wife and seven servants at his home in the little Bavarian mountain resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Originally the Villa Strauss at Zöppritzstrasse No. 46, was a simple, comfortable country establishment. But Garmisch-Partenkirchen, scene of the 1936 winter Olympics, has recently become a tourist and winter sport centre, and the white-haired composer has had to fortify himself against snoopers...