European Money and Industry Seek Haven in North America
Analysis notes that European capital and factory opportunities drift toward the United States and Canada as Europe’s crisis deepens. It highlights foreign investment growth, Czech Bata plant moves, Sudetenland resettlements, and Canada's refuge policies, with tensions over China concessions and Japan’s aims in Tientsin and Canton. It also surveys Ukraine’s resources and U.S. currency history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North America
America
Canada
U. S
Europe
Czecho-Slovakia
United States
Harry Hopkins
Jan Bata
Immigration Department
China
Japan
East
Tientsin
Canton
Shanghai
Amoy
Peking
Hungary's Admiral Horthy Holds Steady Command
Admiral Nicholas Horthy, now 71, leads Hungary as regent since 1920 in a navyless, kingless state. He praises co operation with Germany yet vows not to yield economic independence, while defending Hungary as a stabilizing force after Czechoslovakia's breakup. He once fought off six Nazi demonstrators at the Budapest opera house and remains wary of Nazi pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Horthy
Hungary
Berlin
Admiral Horthy
Parliament
Germany
Budapest
War Admiral's Rise and Seabiscuit Rivalry In Turf History
The piece traces War Admiral as the eighth generation descendant of Man o War, foaled in 1934 and debuting in 1936. It notes his three wins in six starts as a 2yo, peak in 1937 with Derby Preakness Belmont and five more, then his decline as turf dominance shifted to Seabiscuit. War Admiral retired after an ankle injury, ending a lineage that produced top money winners. War Admiral earned $273,240 over 21 of 26 starts, surpassing Man o War in total earnings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faraway Farm
War Admiral
Turfdom
Seabiscuit
Theless
Man o'War
Samuel D. Riddle
Profit Sharing Taxation Debate Takes Shape in Senate
A special senate panel examined profit sharing as a cure for capital labor friction. Vandenberg and colleagues floated tax credits and bonds to boost employee profits, with mixed views on scope, impact on social security, and government incentives. The panel urged cautious experiments and debated punitive versus incentive taxation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Michigan
Arthur Vandenberg
Vandenberg
Iowa
Clyde Herring
Colorado
Edwin C. Johnson
Herring
Johnson
Concensus
When Clocks Stopped in the 1933 Long Beach Quake
Bryan Carlock of Bloomington Illinois recalls March 10 1933 in Long Beach California when clocks stopped at 555 pm as a strong earthquake struck. He and sister Chester Linton fled a collapsing apartment. A neighbor died from falling cornice while a tidal wave fear spread. They survived by delaying exit and endured aftershocks and injuries.
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Elso
Bryan Carlock
Bloomington
Ill
Bryan
Long Beach
Calif
Lieut
Chester Linton
Sis
Bryan Fan
Chester
Broadway and
Linden
Bryant
Leutenant
Home
City Hall Park
Lennox
Los Angeles
France
College Graduates Have Lower Divorce Rates In Study
A study by the office of education covering 46 000 alumni from 1928 to 1935 shows 19 divorces per 1000 marriages, with more divorced among college women than men. Head hunting persists despite pressure, notably among the Jivaro of South America and in remote Philippines and Borneo areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of Education
South America
Philippine Islands
Borneo
Photography Eye Mirrors Expand Reach of Space Telephotos
A 82 inch mirror at the McDonald Observatory in Texas joins Mount Wilson and Palomar in the race of giant telescopes. The article explains how larger mirrors and photographic emulsions enhance light gathering, enabling deep sky photography and spectral analysis to reveal distance, mass, temperature, and composition of celestial objects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Geographics
McDonald Observatory
Mount Locke
Davis Mountains
Texas
Mount Wilson Observatory
Pasadena
Calif
Mount Palomar
California Institute of Technology
Universities of Texas
Chicago
Mt. Palomar Observatory
Samuel Orkin
Mount Wilson
Alderney Fortress Plans Reported Near English Channel
London reports plans to fortify Alderney, the English Channel island near the Norman coast. The island, Napoleonic fortress turned naval harbor, features forts such as Fort Albert Fort Tourgis and Fort Essex, plus a plateau town of St Anne with facilities and commerce.
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Nationaliie
Be Gawnu Senises
Gibraltar
Alderney
English Channel Islands
London
France
England
Normandy
Gland
Fort Albert
Fort Tourgis
Fort Essex
Earl of Essex
Island
St. Anne
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Eekly
Joseph W. Labine
Ews
Western Newspaper Union
Asia
Crossroads
Ukraine
Ussia
Carpathian Mountains
Caspian Sea
Dneister
Russia
Donetz River
Ganese
Adolf Hitler
Czecho- Slovakia
der Fuehrer
U. S&s. Bureau of Mines
Treasury
Soviet Russia
Moscow
Adventurers’ Club
LFI
Bisithontes
Britain
Channel
Casquet Rocks
Swinburne
Les Casquettes
ANCE
Alderney Island
English Channel
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