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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pedagogue Daladier was one of the most silent members of the talkative Chamber of Deputies. He did condemn the French occupation of the German Ruhr in 1921-24. He did advocate friendship with the post-War Weimar Republic. He favored, however vaguely, an economic reorganization of Europe. Once he said: "France is now in the hands of a financial oligarchy, from whom power must be wrested and given back to the people...
Hanfstaengl at that time held the post of Chancellor Hitler's foreign press agent. In June, 1985, he had offered Harvard $1000 for a traveling fellowship in Germany, to be held by a Harvard student for a year and a half, six months of which time should be spent at Munich...
Unveiled in Manhattan's General Post Office, the Mailomat is about the size of a telephone booth, performs a similar service. You put your money in one slot, your letter in another, push a lever and the letter is automatically stamped and posted. Advantages are sanitation (no licking) and speed (no waiting at a post office window, no need for the letter to be canceled...
...Mailomat, whose price to the Government, or rental to industry, is still unfixed, is a development of the postage meter Walter Bowes persuaded the Post Office to try in 1920, year after he and the late Arthur Pitney formed Pitney-Bowes. Since then use of postage meters has risen until they now provide the U. S. Government with 16% of its annual postage revenue. Practically every big U. S. company has either rented or bought a Pitney-Bowes machine to speed up its mailing. Pitney-Bowes profits meanwhile have risen to $614,791 in 1937, $586,416 last year...
Died. Ernst Toller, 45, German expressionist poet and playwright (Man and the Masses) ; by his own hand (hanging); a few days after attending a world convocation of writers (see p. 79); in Manhattan. Leader of social revolutionary movements in post-War Germany, Toller wrote many of his works in prison, was exiled by the Nazis, fought Fascism in Spain, worked in the U. S. to aid Spanish refugees...