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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolved," droned the presiding officer, "that this House will not, under any conditions, fight for its King and Country." By a slim majority of six the motion passed. Meanwhile London's historic Punch dealt in scathing verse with the famed Oxford Union whose members have twice voted, both times by overwhelming majorities, never to fight for King & Country...
Paul von Hindenburg swore eternal fealty to the Hohenzollern Crown-yet permitted himself to be elected President. Elected and reelected, he twice swore as President to preserve, protect and defend the Republican Constitution, Article 3 of which reads: The national colors are black- red-gold...
Greta Keller, the husky-voiced Viennese who for several years has had a big record-following in the U. S., was to have been in the Fourth Little Show this winter. She arrived in Manhattan to rehearse but the show was never produced. She finally got a contract broadcasting twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. E.S.T.) for Tangee Lipstick. Five years ago singing for her supper was the farthest thing from Greta Keller's mind. She was playing the lead in the Viennese production of Broadway. A Prussian with pretty legs...
...according to Apted. At the present time, the office is holding seven pairs of spectacles for possible claimants, and two and one-half pairs of gloves. Second-hand books are a constant source of trouble. Frequently, the name inscribed in the book is that of the owner once or twice removed. A few weeks ago, a postcard was sent to a student in regard to a book which he had sold at a second-hand bookstore four years ago. In another case, a student who came in to reclaim a lost book, caught sight of another one, which...
...transfer of debt from the Bank of the United States to other companies personally controlled by Marcus and Singer. This was done largely through a huge loan, eight millions in excess of the legal limit, and through the sale to these affiliates of a block of stock at almost twice its book-value. For the sake of simplicity, only these operations were brought up by the investigators, though it was known that there were numerous other questionable deals. Faced with such magnificent swindling, it will seem to many that a sentence of only three to six years...