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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just to show it was not "mastered," one U-boat added to Germany's sea score last week by nailing the new British cruiser Belfast at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, sending her back crippled to Rosyth naval base. Another U-boat sank a small ship which Berlin claimed was a Q-boat-an armed Britisher disguised as a Dutchman to lure submarines. The British identified this ship as the innocent 5,133-ton Dutch freighter Sliedrecht, whose crew was turned loose to drift in a lifeboat for seven and a half days...
...industrial Midlands, flying low and streaking away from anti-aircraft and pursuit after traversing Manchester (textiles), Merseyside (ship-building), and North Wales (coal). Last week more Nazis penetrated Kent and Essex, passing close to London, some of them apparently to divert attention from mine-laying seaplanes at the mouth of the Thames. Repeated reconnaissance in the North culminated with a concentrated bomber flight which descended upon a detachment of the British Home Fleet somewhere near the Shetland Islands in the North Sea. British reports said lots of bombs fell but no ships or men were hurt. Nazi reports claimed square...
...spent eight years digging out his facts. No other publisher would touch it-they feared it was "of such a nature ... as to get us into a great deal of trouble." Declared a typical nose-holding review (New York Times): "It leaves such a bad taste in the mouth that readers may be cordially advised to read something else...
Most college libraries banned the book. But its word-of-mouth reputation grew; Congressmen took to quoting it; its facts were a gold mine for left-wing cribbers. By 1936 the Modern Library edition (sales: 25,000) could say honestly that the History of the Great American Fortunes was a semi-classic of research. Author Myers has never been sued for libel...
Since 1929 when Professor Pierce Baker and his "47 workshop" were cold-shouldered by the Lowell administration and sought refuge at Yale, dramatics at Harvard have been living from hand to mouth. Three times alumni have offered to build a School of Dramatic Arts, and each time the University reechoed "the theatre has no place in the life of Harvard students." More interest has been focused upon the stage than ever before--upon experiment and student playwriting by the Dramatic Club, upon skits and plays of social comment by the Student Union, upon more and more productions by the Houses...