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...most widely publicized prizefight: "Jack Sharkey, the prizefighter who took up failure as a vocation in life and made a brilliant success of it, is fighting his old friend Tommy Loughran in Philadelphia tonight. There is a contest in which it ought to be possible to stir up the widest disinterest...
...happy smile President Roosevelt last week brought into being the Tennessee Valley Authority, another administrative engine for planned economy. Modeled after the Port of New York Authority, this independent Federal agency, with its own credit and its own crew, is to undertake what the President had called "the widest experiment ever conducted by a government"-the industrial development of a 640,000-sq. mi. watershed. Its domain starts in the wooded heights of the Cumberland and Great Smoky Mountains, sweeps down past Knoxville and Chattanooga, dips into Alabama at Muscle Shoals, turns north through the rolling farm lands of Tennessee...
Jail Delivery. Under the widest amnesty granted in Germany since the Revolution of 1918, more than 10,000 political jailbirds - mostly Communists and Fascists-were let out of the Fatherland's jails on Christmas Eve or earlier in the week. This liberal gesture, designed to win popularity for the Cabinet of essentially unpopular and aristocratic General Kurt von Schleicher, was completed in able Santa-Claus fashion by giving each jailbird enough money to pay his carfare home and buy a Christmas dinner. Prisoners arrested in summer were given a winter overcoat, mittens...
...moderate Socialist Vorwärts said: "If the President had really considered a change of Government necessary and had acted accordingly he could not be reproached. But the way in which Dr. Brüning and his Cabinet, personally devoted to the President, were overthrown has profoundly altered in the widest circles the image of the man von Hindenburg. In the eyes of the German people it has clouded that image...
This "next big industry" expects a billion-dollar market within five years. The widest market will be in small theatres, stores, offices, homes. Small portable humidifiers cost from $15 to $100. Air washers, humidifiers and blowers built as one unit average $300 to $500 installed. Mechanical refrigeration for cooling pushes the cost to about...