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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned to tour U. S. industrial centres and buy, for the U. S. S. R. a total of more than $30,000,000 worth of automotive machinery, plans, parts, cars and tractors. Today the main streets of Moscow are just beginning to present a traffic problem, thanks to several thousand little cars closely resembling Ford sedans, all Soviet manufactured under the management of Old Bolshevik Dybets-kicked last week out of his job as Director of the All-Union Motor Car and Tractor Administration...
...Masten Park High School* which both my wife and I attended in Buffalo, and was one of the wisest as well as the most lovable educators and leaders of youth that that city has ever known. In his last years as principal his former students, usually well over a thousand of them, were accustomed to banquet annually on his birthday in the big ballroom of Buffalo's Hotel Statler, and either one or both of his sons, as well as his daughter Edith would come up from New York City on these occasions to assist in doing him honor...
...blockade of Spain. In all that coast there are just six ports with effective rail connection with China's interior north-to-south: Tientsin. Tsingtao, Haichow, Shanghai, Hangchow, Canton. Shanghai is bottled up. Tientsin Japan already controls. Blockading the other ports is none too difficult, was made a thousand times easier last week by President Roosevelt's order forbidding the exporting of munitions on U. S.-owned ships...
...Shanghai cable companies, figuring they have lost several hundred thousand dollars' worth of business during the 15 clays their lines have been cut, spent $19,500 on a daring tugboat expedition which laid 26 mi. of cable and restored service last week. Three days later something or somebody cut the cables again and Shanghai dispatches once more went exclusively by radio...
...Derby with Sir Victor's Renardo, but finished in the ruck along with the favorite, the Marquis Evremond de St. Alary's French-bred Le Ksar.* But he showed his old touch on other occasions this season by winning the Oaks at Epsom Downs and the One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket with Sir Victor's Exhibitionist, the Irish Derby with Phideas. Jockey Donoghue's new job will not be training Sir Victor's horses, as was expected, but writing racing news for an Australian syndicate...