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...Reich's Colonial Organization which declared that Patagonia is "nobody's land and we can annex it," and which told exactly how it could done. The signatures on the letter were identified as those of a German Embassy secretary and Nazi Leader Alfred Müller. Result: police arrested Leader Müller, raided Nazi Party offices. The German Chargė d'Affaires protested that the letter was a "gross forgery," and Argentine Foreign Minister José Maria Cantilo made a conciliatory reply, although continuing to investigate. Most delighted were British and American traders who believed that...
...stations on a small radio receiver. When he landed at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. next day, tired and chilled, he had set a new transcontinental light-plane record: 23 hours and 26 minutes, an average of 110 m.p.h. Cost of the trip, exclusive of sandwiches, coffee and depreciation: $27.15. Result: a fat sheaf of inquiries from pilots, to some of whom Monocoupe hopes to sell airplanes. Said satisfied Mr. Bunch: "I made the flight for my own satisfaction...
...ears the radio pours its ride-'em-cowboy adventure and hearty-uncle promise of dandy premiums in return for mailed-in cereal box tops, bread labels, candy wrappers. Hapless parents, besides footing the bills, have a job on their hands in getting their supercharged, excited youngsters to bed. Result is that children's programs come in for persistent beefing, not only by U. S. parents but by the more-feared Federal Communications Commission...
Having been stuck with a $16,600,000 debt as the result of overexpansion in 1930, Oliver Farm Equipment Co. has moved cautiously with Raydex, testing it quietly for three years. But word of its merit spread so fast among farmers that Oliver had orders for 7,000 even before it formally announced Raydex to its dealers last week. It expects to sell 150,000 by autumn...
When experts write about public opinion, they usually sound like Gertrude Stein. When is public opinion public opinion and when is it private opinion publicly expressed? In Public Opinion, Professor Albig offers a simple definition-opinion, he says, is some expression on a controversial point; public opinion is a result of the interactions of persons in any type of group. A typical, professional volume, piling up to 493 pages, including essays on language, propaganda, newspapers, the Gallup Poll and innumerable quotations to plug holes in the argument, Public Opinion is nevertheless more interesting than most such books...