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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tourists long ago discovered Calypso, found it fun to pay a few dollars to have themselves described in an impromptu ballad. For nearly five years, Columbia and Decca have recorded Calypso songs in Trinidad, but U. S. enthusiasts could obtain discs only by hunting for them in New York's Harlem. By last week, with four midtown Manhattan shops (Liberty, Center, Marconi and Symphony) carrying them in stock Calypsos sold well to an eager public...
...same date all Germany's Jews over three months old must obtain similar cards, costing $1.20, must present them on all occasions, social or business. Objects: to trace criminals, raise revenue, prevent goys from dealing with non-Aryans inadvertently...
...aggregate attendance of 260,000 people at its repeated Friday services, which totaled 315. Four cathedrals were holding novenas, and four more planned to. Novena Notes, Father Keane's clubby weekly, had a circulation of 145,000. Each church requesting it and paying the cost of printing could obtain an edition containing a page of local notes. Churches could also buy special prayer books for the novena, 10? each...
...Japanese explained: ". . . Cancellation is due to the fact that it is absolutely necessary for Japan to obtain the objective of the Sino-Japanese incident by national mobilization of materials and spirits. . . ." International observers, not at all surprised at this turn of events, hinted at other reasons in addition to the pinched economic situation: 1) Recent restoration to power of aristocratic army leaders who, dreading Japanese adoption of Western ways, have from the start opposed the meet and its concurrent influx of Occidentals; 2) Fear of "losing face" in view of the threatened boycott of the Games by Great Britain, Switzerland...
...recreation included serious talks with Japanese Foreign Minister General Kazushige Ugaki, a dinner attended by Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. This led correspondents to cable that the Philippine President was angling for assurances from these high Japanese officials that Japan had no designs on the islands when the Philippines obtain their independence from the U. S. in November 1945, as now scheduled. The U. S. Philippine Ordinance expressly forbids the Filipinos any direct participation in foreign affairs until 1945 and, as he left Tokyo for Manila late last week. President Quezon vehemently denied that he had been engaged in any "security...