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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ginjiro Fujiwara, Japan's "Paper King" (he virtually controls the production of newsprint), Japan's most positive and noisy industrialist, was also along. A notorious labor-baiter, the Paper King writes sanctimonious essays praising Japan's simple life (i. e., low standard of living), exulting in the fact that even Cabinet Ministers get paid only the equivalent of $200 a month. The Paper King told newspapers that he was out to master the German economy. "I will understand it in one glance of it, being the veteran industrialist served this world for 45 years now," he said...
...Standard Oil subsidiary at Bayonne, N. J. replaced all German-born hands on its tankers with U. S. seamen. Lieut,. Commander Allan Wurtele, U. S. N., retired, announced on his New Roads. La., sugar plantation that he was ready to contribute $5,000 to a fund to buy Danzig, the Polish Corridor, and give them to Adolf Hitler. "This offer may sound screwball," said Commander Wurtele...
When he was a young man Adolf Hitler tried to get into the Vienna Art Academy, was rejected because his sketches were "below standard." For the rejection he blamed the Jews. Two days after his Reichstag speech he addressed a proclamation to the German people, saying: "It is that Jewish plutocratic and democratic upper crust which . . . hates our new Reich." Then he prepared to leave for the Eastern Front, where his Army and that of Smigly-Rydz, an able if academic landscapist, were locked in a painters...
...proclamation by the President of an emergency. The Commodity Exchange Administration has control over grain futures markets, can set permissible limits beyond which no future can rise in a single day. And the President, in addition to his power to cut he dollar to 50% of its old gold-standard ralue (it is now 59%) has the power to regulate or prohibit all dealings in foreign exchange...
...began to remember and worry about its long dormant record business; 2) a brand new concern, Decca, entered the field with a sheaf of fresh ideas. Dapper, bespectacled Jack Kapp and his codirector, Edward R. Lewis, had long contended that what the country needed was a good 35? record (standard prices had previously ranged from 75? to $2). Signing up big names in the popular field (biggest: Crooner Bing Crosby-see p. 50), Decca put this contention to the test, and sales began to skyrocket. Today, the five-year-old Decca concern, with Crosby as its Caruso, stands second only...