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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a certain amount of deplorable lynching in our own Southland, but every intelligent American vigorously condemns this practice. Yet, bad as this is, the number of deaths resulting from lynching do not amount to more than 25 per year. In Hitlerland, they have a "sport" known as Gantlet Running, (TIME, Dec. 5th) where 62 innocent people were tortured and twelve killed in one week, the figure running into thousands each year...
...Capone is white; so is 'Machine Gun' Kelly; so are Hitler and Mussolini, public enemies number one of civilization and humanity. In fact all the notorious and world renowned crooks whom I know are white...
...Pressed to explain why New York Telephone Co. does not employ an "equitable number" of Jews, one official replied that Jewish girls could not operate equipment "because their arms are too short." A restaurateur alibied that Jewish waitresses do not like to serve nonkosher food...
...some respects the Battle for Cata lonia was the greatest military engagement since the World War. Although the number of soldiers was far less than that on the Western front in 1914-18, the Rebel concentration of artillery was as great as that used by the Germans at Verdun- about one cannon to every ten yards. In the northern sector of the offensive, near Balaguer. Generalissimo Franco's troops pounded the enemy with a fierce artillery barrage, then bombarded the Loyalists from the air, then attacked with from 100 to 150 tanks. Finally his infantry moved...
...activities of the confidence man first came to light when banks on Harvard Square complained when payment was stopped on a number of checks drawn to the order of a "Peter Geer." Presumably the drafts were stopped after students were told by their tailers that the "imported goods" were fraudulent and many times over-priced...