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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic claque was ready to whoop and holler for anything the President said. Representative J. Will Taylor of Tennessee hoisted his feet on top of the seat in front of him as a gesture of Republican intransigeance. Forty radio technicians were busy with 26 microphones. Out through the House Chamber, out through the U. S., out through the world rang the vibrant voice of Franklin Roosevelt as he began to speak: "Mr. President. Mr. Speaker. Members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives...
...said they had horse whipped him "in the name of Belgium's women and children." In 1924 he was sponsoring a charter reform when the City Charter Committee was just getting under way. The two movements merged, but not until the last election did Preacher Bigelow get a seat on the municipal council. Meantime he had worked up a hub bub against utility companies. He had also joined Father Coughlin's National Union For Social Justice, sitting on the platform at meetings with the Detroit radio priest and vigorously proselytizing members of his own private "People...
...have more than a fair chance to repeat their victories of the 1932 winter games at Lake Placid. At hockey, fancy skating and skiing they are likely to be beaten. Major event of the 1936 Winter Olympics will be the ski-jump, for which grandstands have been built to seat a crowd of 80,000. Practicing at Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week, on the jump which has a swastika placed below the take-off so that a good jumper lands beyond it, Norway's 21-year-old Birger Ruud. Olympic champion in 1932, jumped 269 ft., won an impromptu tournament...
...mapmaker's fact of doubtful significance. Neutral military experts in Washington, Berlin. Paris and London consider that Premier Mussolini's deepest purposes have not yet been revealed, but that unquestionably he has hamstrung his soldier's war in East Africa by political and diplomatic back-seat driving from Rome. Darting raids by Italian bombers, unaccompanied by troop operations on the ground, have resulted in little more than the enemy's terror and disorganization. After major advances there have been sudden, desultory lulls. Because concurrent maneuvers on the Diplomatic Front have been secret and clandestine, II Duce...
...pioneered the porcelain spark plug in the U. S., and its thread has since become standard for all spark plugs. In 1911 Autocar started to specialize on trucks, now makes models from 2%½ ton to 15½ ton capacity. An Autocar feature was long the under-the-seat motor, now being adopted by other truck makers. One advantage is increased payload per inch of wheelbase, an important factor because of legal limitations on truck lengths. Short trucks are also easier to maneuver in cramped quarters, and Autocars are a favorite with coal dealers. Autocar has paid no dividend...