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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...billion dollar national income. Nor does the President expect 1929's income to be approached until idle private capital is put to work. To be put to work much of it must be lent, increasing to new heights the entire debt of the national economic system. In short, Franklin Roosevelt's vision of prosperity is that it will be achieved only when U. S. debt (public and private) far exceeds that...
...automobile, smashed into three other cars successively, killed a man, never stopped until overtaken by police. Because of Duncan's respected past, a lenient judge, who had found him guilty of first-degree manslaughter (calling for five to ten years in prison), let him off with a short term in Milwaukee's house of correction. Just before leaving office Governor La Follette, acting without the State pardon board, freed his friend because, he said, he knew the tragedy had resulted from Duncan's hard work and business worries...
...this was very disturbing to tall, red-suspendered Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, military ruler of southern Rebel Spain. Long on radiorating ability but short on generalship, General Queipo de Llano was said to have incurred the ire of El Caudillo Franco for not defending his bailiwick better. It seemed likely that El Caudillo would be forced sooner or later to pay some attention to Extremadura, perhaps transfer some badly needed troops from Catalonia...
...courageous anti-Nazi, who has ridiculed and opposed the policies of Adolf Hitler since the early days when the Nazis fought their political battles on the streets. A onetime schoolteacher, later an author and publisher, Niekisch took a leading part with famed Revolutionary Kurt Eisner in establishing the postWar, short-lived Bavarian Soviet State. When the Nazis came to power, his argument that both Germany and Russia were authoritarian and anticapitalistic and therefore should work together economically had numerous backers in the Nazi Party, chiefly among the followers of Hitler's lieutenant, Ernst Roehm, and Niekisch's publication...
This curious colloquy took place last week in Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, where engineers of Bell Telephone Laboratories and a trained operator demonstrated a complicated electronic device called Voder (short for "voice operation demonstrator"). Voder creates a variety of sounds resembling human speech closely enough to be easily intelligible. It is intended to flabbergast, enlighten and amuse visitors to this year's world's fairs in San Francisco and New York City...