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...huge show places of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, glistening cars mocked the vacant desks, the muffled telephones. Detroit's 300 dealers fired most of their 3,000 salesmen. In New Orleans and else where big dealers kicked themselves for deliberately holding down sales last quar ter (to keep out of the high income-tax brackets...
...Adolf Hitler's own Volkischer Beobach-ter declared that Russia "battles with dogged tenacity . . . surpasses all previous opponents in fighting temper...
...tutors chiefly recommend are Matthiesen in both England and America; Miller in America; Barbour in the Renaissance and Medieval period; Schlater in early England; Morize and Dur in the Romance Languages; Finley in the Classics. Gaps have been left in the tutorial staff by the departure of Pot- ter, Houghton and Durand, but on the whole the staff is very good...
Before the word "Go" had echoed over the Orange County hills, the leaders were passing the stands, their program numbers stuck in their manes like Court of St. James's plumes. Queen Victoria was in front, followed by big Remus, tallest trot ter (17.2 hands) on U. S. tracks and little Kuno, last year's two-year-old champion. As they rounded the first turn of the three-cornered track, all Goshen shook with a mighty roar. Spencer Scott, the favorite, began to move up on the outside...
Died. Dr. Alfred F. M. Zimmermann, 81, German Foreign Minister during World War I, author of the notorious "Zimmer mann Note" of pneumonia; in Berlin. In January 1917, the British Naval Intelligence intercepted and decoded a note from Zimmermann to the German Minis ter in Mexico: If the U. S. entered the war, Germany wanted a Mexican alli ance, promised U. S. territory as booty...