October 31, I attended a tea which followed a meeting of the committee making plans for the annual joint dachshund specialty show at Tattershalls next April, which I believe with its 1938 turnout of 279 dachshunde, toppped our 1937 record of 276 dachshunde, and held the world record until our 311 set a new high a few weeks later.[…]The two-day show ended when Enno Meyer, Milford, Ohio, awarded the most coveted trophy to the dachshund.

I recently received a firsthand report from an old friend — John A. Keel — who until last year was as skeptical a newshound as I have known.

In both respects, as I have already pointed out, they differed from the Polynesians who brought with them to their island homes not only their language but their agriculture, from the cradle of their race in the Malay Archipelago; cuttings of seedless breadfruit and of sugarcane, fleshy roots of taro and yams; even trees, like the Indian almond and the candlenut.

The launch pad for this was the Seventeenth Party Congress in January 1934, fanfared by press editorials and street slogans assuring the Soviet people that 'Life has become better, life has become happier'.