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Last week Broadcaster Biow bought for less than $200,000 from Publisher William Randolph Hearst station WINS (Manhattan), announced that he would withdraw from his WNEW presidency and all stock ownership, assume full command of station WINS as soon as FCC approved the license transfer.* Meanwhile, Client Arde Bulova has been reported in the market for a Manhattan radio station...
...transport ships to aid the 180,000 already engaged in the campaign. Most notable temporary Japanese success last week was the cutting of the Hankow-Peking Railway, about 100 miles north of Hankow, by Japanese cavalry which had completed a 200-mile cross-country drive. Last month the Japanese command boasted that Hankow would be taken by October 1. Last week Chinese resistance had so stiffened that few neutral observers believed the city could be occupied before next month, some believed the Chinese could hold out until the year...
...should be spent on syphilis prevention and less on national defense, that immigration of Austro-German refugees should be facilitated but they should be sterilized before being admitted to the U. S. Last week tart, leathery Major General Moseley, having passed 43 years in the service and two in command of the U. S. Third Army, retired, as all army men must do at 64. News editors were made aware of this routine event by the receipt of four mimeographed sheets...
...Hitler "in the language of sweet reasonableness," Duff Cooper told the House, in a speech interrupted by his sobbing, "whereas the mailed fist is the only language Hitler understands!" Germany would have backed down, said Mr. Duff Cooper, if Britain had sooner mobilized her fleet, which was under his command as First Lord...
...wandered about the world outside the danger zone, while I did my duty as a soldier - and again today I AM THE FIRST SOLDIER OF MY PEOPLE! ... I COULD NEVER BE REPROACHED WITH BEING A COWARD. . . . THE GERMAN NATION IS WITH ME, AND ITS WILL IS MY COMMAND. . . . ONE COMMON WILL IS STRONGER THAN PRIVATION AND DANGER AND WILL CONQUER BOTH...