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...Germany is now a military dictatorship and Nazi Party leaders are disappearing. Labor Front Leader Robert Ley knows he is through. Propaganda Chief Paul Joseph Goebbels has been given a chance to show he can cooperate with the new setup, but minor Party leaders are being liquidated. Karl Boemer, head of the Press Section of the Propaganda Ministry and spokesman for the Government at the Propaganda Ministry's press conferences, disappeared about three weeks ago. The day after the Hess flight police rounded up 20 truckloads of men in north Berlin. Many of them were in Storm Trooper uniforms...
Equally unfortunate, to most Britons, is the setup of the Government's Petroleum Board, which is headed by representatives of the Shell, Anglo-American and Anglo-Iranian oil companies. The Board buys oil from these companies, resells it to them for distribution. Retail profits are fixed, but the oil companies can set the retail price, presumably take a profit on bulk sales to the Board. Cockney comment on the Petroleum Board: "Oh my, ain't it a luvly...
...whites-most of them had to get within 50 feet of the stick before they could make it out. Said Dr. DeSilva: "We never even suspected this phenomenon before. . . This may lead us to conclusions never before dreamed of. It may result in changes in our military setup on land...
...months ago Decca put through a deal with the English Parlophone company which has changed its whole reissue setup for the hundred per cent better. For years Decca has used Parlophone's classical catalogue to prop up its own second-rate classical line. But now Parlophone's great Super Rhythm Style Series has been brought out over here under the title of Gems of Jazz--two albums which, taken as a whole, are examples of the hot style at its uninhibited, unrestricted best. Some of them have been known to draw grudging approval even from those Philistines who refuse...
...July 8, 1917, the War Industries Board was set up. This was a great organizing step forward. But the mercurial press, disgusted with the complication of board and bureaus and general fumbling, thoroughly blasted the confused setup. Not until March 4, 1918 did Wilson appoint Baruch chairman of the War Industries Board, or clothe him with Presidential authority. The U.S. had been at war eleven months...