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Last week's total bond offerings of $263,000,000 set a four-year record but it just happened that only $5,000,000 was private financing-a United Biscuit issue, notable because it included more than $1,000,000 of new capital. Most of the week's total was accounted for by $162,000,000 of Federal Land Bank refunding, a $24,000,000 California relief loan and a $50,000,000 New York City refunding issue...
Holdover Chief. Every year since he became Chief of Staff in 1930, General Douglas MacArthur had vainly pleaded for funds to build the military establishment up to what he considered minimum requirements. Just as success seemed about to come to him, his four-year tour of duty, fixed by law, ran out last November. By an unprecedented executive order, President Roosevelt continued General MacArthur in office indefinitely to help Secretary of War Dern press the Army's "modernization" plans before Congress...
Significance. In this great oration- and Der Reichsführer is the greatest vote-getting orator of the age-the one precise statement is that on Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler laid down a four-year labor program which last week had been two-thirds fulfilled. Exactly what was this labor program...
...April correspondents were told that Der Führer would "lift the veil" from this Four-Year Plan when he addressed 1,000,000 German workers massed at Tempelhofer Field on Labor Day, May 1, 1933. On the historic May Day, the 1,000,000 assembled German workers cheered Leader Hitler to the echo when he roared: "German people, remember yourselves! We want to imbue, nay burn, into the minds of our people: German people, you are not a second class people, even if a thousand times the world wants to have it that way, YOU ARE NOT INFERIOR...
...youngsters began babbling about themselves as soon as they could talk, kept it up in a great four-year crescendo. At the age of 2 their chief interest outside themselves was in objects. By the time they were 6, that external interest had shifted largely to persons. "The pre-school child," Dr. Fisher reported, "is a confirmed egotist and extremely sociable. He satisfies both needs by talking incessantly to other people, telling them whatever he happens to be doing at the moment...