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...types and a probable bomber strength of 7,000. ... He has never yet directed against us anything like his total hitting power. ... He had to train new personnel in long-distance night-bombing tactics. He is doing it. ... The Nazis have 16,000 instructors now working on six-week courses in factories. We have got a couple of thousand. They have 200 training centres. We've got 40. ... They have really mobilized the whole area they control. Conscription is the honest word for mobilization and let's stop being mealymouthed. . . . We must have guns, machine guns, airplanes, ships...
...Last week the Chicago Opera was in the middle of its six-week season. This year's new angel and ardent publicizer: Publisher Robert ("Bertie") McCormick of the Tribune. There were other novel ties. A chorus whose average age was 25 tickled Chicago eyes as well as ears. The Ballet Theatre, which earned huzzahs at its Manhattan debut last year, joined forces with the singers. Last fortnight a performance of Carmen got columns of publicity: in the last act 18 Chicago cops, led by Chief of Traffic Captain David Flynn, took turns appearing as Spanish dragoons riding nine police...
Some twenty courses in arts and sciences, not offered on the regular Harvard College winter curriculum, will be scheduled by the six-week summer session starting July 1, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology and director, announced today...
...return to Paris after a six-week "study tour" of American democracy, Archduke Otto, Habsburg pretender to the throne of Austria, was asked what he thought of the U. S. Presidential campaign. Observed Otto: "No petty wrangling, and no personal rivalries. The national interest dominates...
Thus ended the six-week trial of General Motors, accused of conspiring to restrain interstate commerce by forcing its dealers to specify that all the cars they sell on installments be financed through General Motors Acceptance Corp. The jury's strange verdict seemed to say that there had been a conspiracy without conspirators. But no seer was needed to guess at the jury's real meaning: that the men accused were no criminals, but the practice had better be stopped...