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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reims last week occurred the first important street battle between gangs of French Reds & Pinks and gangs of French Whites of the new anti-Communist Party founded by tough, barrel-chested ex-Communist Jacques Doriot, Mayor of St. Denis, a Paris suburb, and a French Deputy. In 1932 he visited Russia, conferred with Moscow leaders, returned to France vigorously critical of Stalin, and was therefore expelled from the French Communist Party. Nonetheless his St. Denis working class constituents have twice more re-elected him although he was opposed and vituperated by Communist candidates. Today this stocky, muscular anti-Communist with...
...auto race at Roosevelt Field next month. Last week, at Meadow Brook, the Open Polo Championship series ended. Last week also, International Tennis, a leisurely international carnival in whose circuit the other stops are Melbourne and Nice, Auteuil and Wimbledon, paused at the flat and singularly unarboreal New York suburb of Forest Hills, to play its last major engagement of the year-the Singles Championship of the U. S., for men & women...
Sentimental Canadians promptly deluged Ryan the Prodigal with offers of jobs. After due thought he accepted two: one as an automobile salesman in a Toronto suburb which gave him the use of a car, time off for long, mysterious automobile trips; the other from Toronto's Hotel Nealon to sit about the lobby of an evening, be pointed out as "Canada's Dillinger" (reformed), and greet visiting firemen. Red Ryan's lectures, incorporated in a book called The Futility of Crime, were ready for the presses last week. Ryan the Prodigal never neglected to pay weekly visits...
Franker than most autobiographers since Rousseau, Murry makes no bones about revealing some unflattering facts, but his candor often leaves a disingenuous impression. Born in a London suburb in 1889, of poor but respectable parents, he was early made to feel the young hopeful. He won a scholarship to a public school (Christ's Hospital) where he learned to be ashamed of his background. He sums up his youthful self as "part snob, part coward, part sentimentalist ... an unattractive personality." But he went up to Oxford with a reputation as a bright lad. His chances for a first-class...
Only a little more explicit than the warnings issued to German voters everywhere was the manifesto by the Nazi leader of the Berlin suburb of Klein-Machnow...