BS: I read it in an old paper...

Subject: BS: I read it in an old paper...
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 May 06 - 02:46 PM

I picked up a paper from 24 May, 1939. The Evening Star, Washington, D. C.

Headline: SEVEN ON SUBMARINE RESCUED IN BELL
Divers Continue to Operate Chamber to Save Trapped Crew
26 Men unaccounted for in Stricken Squalus on Ocean's Floor

Seven Firemen Hurt in Union Trust Blaze

Bergdoll Due to Surrender Tomorrow

Chamberlain Plans New Offer to Soviet; Pact expected Soon

King George Speaks to Empire by Radio from Winnipeg Today

President Arranges Two Conferences on Tax Situation

Cartoon above the fold on front page- FDR leaning against tree, smiling at Hopkins, wilting plant in pot labeled "Business", Water can labeled " Business Appeasement". Ballon over FDR "If our children have to pay interest on the debt, they will be paying it to themselves" Ballon over Hopkins "And besides that, they are'nt old enough to vote in 1940"

Vigilante Groups' Link With Forces Abroad Probed by Dies

15 Arabs Are killed in battle with British

Clipper at Marseille on Homeward Flight

Royal Couple meets Fort Williams Indians

Subject: RE: BS: I read it in an old paper...
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 May 06 - 02:55 PM

ok, there was one music related item on the front page...


Reich Orders Fine for Playing Hitler's Favorite March

Berlin, May 24.- Adolf Hitler's favorite tune, the Badenweiler military march, henceforth cannot be played in public unless the Fuehrer is present.
A violation is punishable by a fine of 150 marks (nominally $60) or up to six weeks imprisonment for "flagrant violation."

Subject: RE: BS: I read it in an old paper...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 May 06 - 11:12 AM

The more things change, the more they stay the same, don't they?

Re: Hitler. I read in one of my library books recently that he may have been taking some kind of methamphetamine. That would explain the arrogance that we see here. Whatever it was, there was definitely something wrong with his mind.

I also read a history of the German V-2 rocket program. At one time, after years of effort, suffering and death, he called a halt because he had had a dream that the program would never succeed. Then after a year or two, he had the program resume.

No wonder the generals tried to kill him.

Subject: RE: BS: I read it in an old paper...
From: Bill Hahn//\\
Date: 04 May 06 - 06:51 PM

Ach, Ya---das Fuehrer vas a card.   

I recall a great joke by Don Adams while he was still doing stand-up and prior to his TV series---He said--"...Werner Von Braun just wrote his autobiography (after he joined the US Space program)---great title---I aim for the stars. Someitmes I hit London". Baboom


Bill Hahn

Subject: RE: BS: I read it in an old paper...
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 May 06 - 07:32 PM

London, May 24 – Prime Minister Chamberlain announced today that the British government was making new proposals to Soviet Russia for her adherence to the British-French front and he had every reason to hope it would be possible to "reach full agreement at an early date."
He said that as a result of conversations at Geneva between Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax and Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London, "all relevant points of view had now been made clear."
Speaking in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister reported on the latest stage in the long-drawn negotiations between Britain and Russia for their projected mutual aid accord.
Earlier a two-hour cabinet meeting had heard a detailed report of Lord Halifax' talks at Geneva with Maisky and French Foreign Minister Bonnet
Informed quarters said the foreign secretary urged immediate acceptance of Russia's terms for a three-power mutual assistance pact among Britain, France, and Russia..
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Subject: RE: BS: I read it in an old paper...
From: frogprince
Date: 08 May 06 - 02:28 PM

Flashback to the night of Halloween, 1969. Five us us, two guys and three coeds, took off from campus to bum around the surrounding rural area. We stopped, as we sometimes did, at a particular isolated, abandoned, old country house. We discovered that night that the kitchen had been papered with 1901 newspapers. The first legible article we came to was about "Soiled Donald", a mad hermit who lived on the coast of Maine and killed whoever stumbled upon his lair. We were reading this by candlelight in this creaky old house; it would have been hard to manufacture a Halloween scenario that good deliberately.