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...opened a new and unpredictable era for the tyranny Joseph Stalin fixed on half the globe. Radioactive dust particles borne east in a cloud from Siberia told the outside world that Russia, too, had plumbed the secret of the thermonuclear bomb and could now visit instantaneous death on the obscurest cranny of civilization. Yet somehow, in the year in which he learned that a mere handful of chemicals could blast his world to smithereens, the average man of the free world seemed to conclude that the peril of general war had lessened...
...their Moscow offices crack foreign correspondents discovered that much of the week's most important news was being printed only in local Russian newsorgans in the regions where it occurred, sometimes even there in obscurest sheets. Thus at Minsk, capital of the White Russian* Soviet Socialist Republic, the important local newsorgan is the Star, but only in a Minsk paper called the Worker could one read last week the BIG STORY of how a three-day session of the White Russian Communist Party, devoted to frenzied charges and countercharges, had been capped by the sudden death of the White...
...policy. Against his will, Mr. MacDonald was forced to appoint as Chancellor of the Exchequer famed Tariff Champion Neville Chamberlain. Next April or sooner, Chancellor Chamberlain will bring in an ironclad British Tariff Act, sure to pass. But emergency tariff measures are in the hands of Britain's obscurest cabinet ministry, the Board of Trade. To keep the Board from skyrocketing tariffs up at once beyond all reason, Free Trader Mac-Donald (still a Socialist), appointed Free Trader Runciman (Liberal) to be President of the Board of Trade. To keep his job President Runciman, cold, thin-lipped and rigidly...
...American football. To the horde of readers of sporting pages he was simply the omnipotent eye in the game which saw all, knew all, and through his mythical. All-American teams, published the annual Who's Who of the gridiron. Through this medium Walter Camp was known to the obscurest enthusiast who knew nothing of his uncontested right to sit in judgment over the national college sport...