Alfredo Rocco, Mussolini’s minister of justice, admits in an interview that the Duck’s attempts to bring the Aventine opposition deputies to heel is part of his efforts to abolish individualism. “We contend that society, and therefore the state, is the ultimate end and that the individual is only a means to achieve the noble purpose of the state.” “Only” is doing a lot of work there. “As a result we feel completely justified in suppressing those who would retard the progress of the state”.
France claims to have discovered, and may have actually discovered, secret German airplane factories in Sweden and Switzerland with German engineers and skilled workers.
Real-estate developer Oscar Konkle starts construction of the “Christian-Missionary Building” on Broadway & 122nd Street, which at 66 stories would be the world’s tallest building, 8 feet higher than the Woolworth Building. He’s building it in gratitude for the recovery of his son, who will be a missionary (Oscar is also associated with Billy Sunday), and it will contain a church alongside 4,500 hotel rooms renting at up to $21 a week and a hospital on the top floor. Konkle will kick back 10% of the earnings to a missionary base in British East Africa. Drinking, smoking, and Sunday newspapers will be banned from the building.
The project will be abandoned during the Depression and litigation following 5 deaths during the excavation.
Next week International Radio Broadcast Tests will be carried out. They’ve gotten transatlantic and navy ships to refrain from broadcasting during the tests but we’ll see if their appeals to rumrunners to maintain radio-silence are obeyed.
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