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...even more they dislike seeing Britain's strict laws drive £1.000,000 a year out of Britain into Ireland. Last year His Grace the jovial, sporting Duke of Atholl ran his own disguised lottery, got £60.000 for British charities and a £25 fine for himself. To plug up the loophole he had found, the Conservative Government jammed through Parliament a new and stricter...
...week NBC program which will run 39 weeks. The music for each program will be as new to the public as the music at the opening night of a theatre musicomedy. If radio audiences particularly like any Gibson Family songs, they will be able to buy sheet copies, may plug them into hits...
When Congress adjourned last month, Boss Long was again at liberty to turn his attention to his hand-picked Legislature. With a flourish his automobile shot him up to the steps of the Capitol. Surrounded by plug-ugly bodyguards he rose by private elevator to the office of Governor Oscar Kelly Allen. Up jumped Puppet Allen to surrender his seat and down sat Senator Long at the Governor's desk to take command. On one side of him was a loudspeaker which, by a twitch of the dial, let him hear debates in House or Senate. On the other...
...little, air-cooling, air-washing, dehumidifying device which Temperature Corp. will sell for $175 plus installation and condensing unit. "Airtemp" will be manufactured in Detroit by Amplex Manufacturing Co., a division of Chrysler Motors. Standing less than three feet high, the cabinet is attached to an ordinary electric base plug and water system, is equipped with a one-eighth h.p. motor which forces air up through water coils into a chamber where it is sprayed, dehumidified, washed under pressure. Water for the coils is cooled by the condensing unit which may be installed in a closet, kitchen or basement. Three...
...Josef Stalin in disposing of defective political tools, Adolf Hitler was, until last week, the Gentle Dictator. The accepted Brown House axiom "Once your friend. Der Führer is always your friend!" remained a potent Storm Troop recruiting slogan. One had only to scan the greedy, sensual, plug-ugly face of Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm; one had only to reflect that all Germany knew of his bull-like philandering with effeminate young men (TIME, March 20, 1933), to decide that since Chancellor Hitler stomached Captain Roehm there was probably no comrade he would not stomach. Historically...