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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Working westward, the van Sweringens and Mr. Eaton of Cleveland have lighted their little hour or two and are gone. Only a tangle of smooth tar roads and buried sewer pipes out in the hinterland, and a railroad terminal that is a fitting mausoleum of their would-be grandeur remain to tell of their experiments in financial wizardry. Nothing, that is, except the city's principal banks shattered beyond repair, with the able assistance of the bankers...
...with congratulations at 7 a. m. First to arrive were Prince and Princess Chichibu. He, as the Emperor's eldest brother, has played for years the thankless role of heir presumptive. Relieved of this by the babe, brisk Chichibu and his beauteous Princess, who have had to remain childless lest they have a son before the Emperor, appeared radiant. For the Army spoke Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, War Minister and possible future Dictator of Japan. "The foundations of our Empire," cried he, "are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity...
...Poles thought, would forget his distaste for the Presidency and accept it as soon as the office was endowed with power. To do this job, or refuse to do it, Poland's Parliament meets this week. Said Deputy Speaker Dr. Car, championing the draft Constitution: "Poland will really remain a Democracy, not a weak Parliamentary Democracy, but one with strong institutions...
This week the Cuban "mess"' boiled up as Mr. Caffery neared Havana. Mobsters friendly to the government sacked, looted and burned the opposition newsorgan El Pats ("The Fatherland' ). Dr. Grau defiantly announced that he will remain Provisional President until May 20, 1934, will then hand his resignation to a Cuban Constituent Assembly elected under his rule. At this declaration bombs burst in air all over Havana. The rattle of rifle fire was heard through the night. But the morrow brought Mr. Caffery's steamer and sufficient calm for several hundred Cubans and U. S. citizens to stage...
...will be very difficult for the generation which found consciousness during the twenties to assess the value of this work. For, however much its editors have sought to make it an historical document, this photographic panorama of the United States since 1860 must, through its very character, remain an effort dedicated to the artful stimulation of nostalgia. Perhaps that virus, bolstered as it is by the camera and by Mr. Allen's informal chatter, will prove itself not yet exhausted by the thorough ministrations of Mr. Mark Sullivan and the self-styled humorous magazines. One is inclined to feel however...