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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next Nürnberg number was 180,000 husky, two-fisted, district leaders of the Nazi Party from all over the Reich. "I could blindly depend on you!" the Führer told them with rising fervor, "[Germany] is determined to capitulate...
...bandits and "liberators" has run even thinner. Last week, noted Mexican Bandit Enrique Rodríguez, nicknamed El Tallarin ("The Noodle"), surrendered to Governor Elpidio Perdomama of Morelos. Taken before military authorities at Mexico City, "The Noodle" explained that the assaults attributed to him over four States for a number of years were all untrue, claimed that he started robbing only as a defiant gesture against a ruthless politician who tried to wring campaign contributions out of him. Having thus implied that Mexico's "New Deal" suited his political tastes, Bandit Rodríguez promised to reform, was promptly...
...bartering its oil with dictatorships. However, none of the delegates from the 13 Central and South American States represented* rose to embarrass Host Lombardo on this point nor did any of the big three "fraternal delegates" present: French Trade Union Tsar Léon Jouhaux, whose dues-paying followers number 5,000,000; the Minister of Justice of Leftist Spain, famed Ramón González Peña, who has personally fought fascism in the Asturias by lighting sticks of dynamite from the end of his cigar and hurling them where they would do the most good...
...band of Scotsmen, led by Reverend George Keith of Aberdeen, landed on the shores of New Jersey, founded the now-forsaken village of Old Scots. Since that time generations of Scots have settled in New Jersey's northeastern industrial and mining regions. Today, the clans of New Jersey number 13, most prominent among them the Clan Gordon and the Clan Cameron...
...National Resources Committee, composed of a number of Cabinet members, New Deal economists and liberal businessmen, considers its job "the most complete picture ever presented of the division of the national income. . . ." For its survey the National Resources Committee used figures compiled from a nationwide sampling by WPA through the bureaus of Home Economics and Labor Statistics. Between July 1935 and July 1936, some 300,000 families in 30 States (66 farm counties, 140 villages and 51 cities) were questioned. Correlated by a small, hard-working spinster named Dr. Hildegarde Kneeland, who was once a home economics teacher...