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...Within bombing range of Siberian airdromes are all of Japan's paper cities. And guarding Vladivostok and all of eastern Siberia are two special Red Banner Far Eastern Armies, garrisoned and equipped to stand a long siege; mobile, well-trained, efficiently commanded by General of Army Josef Rodionovich Apanasenko. In 1938 the Japanese Army ran into the Red Banner and came out second best...
...White Russians and foreign intervention troops on many fronts, was wounded five times, in 1919 helped defend Tsaritsyn (now Stalingrad) where he met Comrade Stalin, who was in command. In 1920 Timoshenko took part in the Red offensive on Warsaw which was repulsed by the Poles under famed Marshal Josef Pilsudski...
Last week Major Quisling and his Party were in little better case than their unfortunate countrymen. As German officials moved in, Nazi Commissioner Josef Terboven issued a decree divorcing the Samling and the State, provided that in the future the Party should pay its own way, even declared that Quisling's Storm Troopers should dig down for their own railway fares. The Nazis also demanded that the Samling pay back 500,000 kroner ($115,000) taken from the State treasury for Party...
...story itself is as simple as starvation, as insanely complicated as law. Neither man has any legal right to existence; both of them insist on existing anyhow. Josef Steiner is hard and adroit: by cheating at cards he earns the thin security of a dead Austrian's doctored passport, works in a Viennese amusement park until Anschluss drives him to Paris. For young Ludwig Kern life is tougher: no papers, no such talent for moneymaking, an incautious enough heart to fall in love and travel with young Jewish Ruth Holland. Peddling toilet water (illegally) they move from Vienna...
...croquignole process, which revolutionized permanent waves by the simple device of winding the hair around curlers from the tips instead of from the scalp, was patented in the '20s by a Czech named Josef Mayer. In the U. S., Mayer's patents are controlled by the Philad Co., which once licensed equipment manufacturers and collected royalties of at least $80.000 a year. But in 1939 a Federal court ruled that, since the manufacturers did not themselves use the croquignole process, they were exempt from royalties. Thereupon Philad began an attempt to collect $12-up a year from virtually...