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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian Schmitt of Baden. Bending over a small table, so that their heads nearly touched, South Germany's spokesmen drafted a long, tart telegram to President von Hindenburg, himself a Prussian. Whatever its ultimate effect, the immediate result of this wire was to make the von Papen Cabinet shorten their reactionary sails and steer a more cautious course...
...they thought differently. With one unanimous whoop they acclaimed Governor Murray as their candidate for President, pledged him Oklahoma's 22 delegates to the Chicago Convention. Declared Governor Murray: "I stand in awe of the responsibility of the Presidency but I will undertake it. ... I am willing to shorten my life, perhaps lose it, in an effort to stem the powers now crushing the American people. . . . No man is fit to be President who hasn't worked for $1 a day and lived on it. ... I don't get puffed up with praise but if America...
...directrix of La Scala Opera in Milan who lost her job last month, partly because of her friendship with anti-Fascist Arturo Toscanini (TIME, Sept. 28), a rich Venetian and pioneer Fascist was appointed: Erardo Trentinaglia. Esteemed in Italy as a composer and conductor, Signor Trentinaglia planned first to shorten La Scala's season, cut down on novelties...
...emergency regulation curtailed the open season for gunning duck, geese and brant to 31 days in northern States, 30 days in central and southern States. Nowhere in the U. S. may waterfowl be taken before the end of September or after the beginning of January. State authorities may shorten their seasons further if they want to. The Federal bag limits remain as before: 15 ducks, four geese (including brant) per day; not more than 30 ducks or eight geese in possession at one time. Divided to match the times of migration, the new state seasons...
Fortnight ago physicians told President Brooks that he had two weeks to live. Though he knew that exertion would shorten his time, he said he would sign the diplomas as he had done every spring for 29 years. They brought a desk to his bedside. At first he signed about 60 a day, but weakness and almost intolerable pain, which even drugs failed to still, slowed up his later efforts.** There were more than 100 diplomas unsigned when he could write no more...