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Fine Arts--"The Passion of Joan of Arc." The super-realistic treatment tends to become a bit tedious at times; well worth seeing, nevertheless. "Die Privatsekretaerin." Pleasant German film...
...that it may force a cut in other expenditures dear to a demagogue's heart. The second choice will involve an admission, tacit or articulate, that he cannot accomplish what he set out to do, not even within a reasonable distance of success. I have no doubt that this bit of brazenness on Hitler's part will result in his having his paddles slapped by the automobile, steel, and coal industries, for such threats to one of them are threats to all, and not to be tolerated. It should not be long before Hitler realizes, as Mussolini before him, that...
...Bermuda might as well take over the United States and run that country for a bit...
...London postman ambled along Charter House Street, turned in at the office of The Diamond Corp. "Good morning," said he to a clerk. "Registered parcel for you. sir. A bit brisk out, sir. Just sign here, if you please, sir." He dipped into his brown canvas sack, passed out a paper package no bigger than a dornick. He touched his cap, ambled out again into Charter House Street. Because the package was addressed personally to Louis Oppenheimer, brother of The Diamond Corp.'s potent Board Chairman Sir Ernest, the clerk took it unopened to his office. Mr. Oppenheimer unwrapped...
...that General Johnson thought his speech could be considered as a sort of unofficial utterance, as a bit of intimate advice given American industry over a national network of broadcasting stations, but the language of his address goes into the records and business men today were re-reading it to see that the General really went as far as he did. Here is the excerpt which will be used from coast to coast by labor organizers in what may precipitate all sorts of strikes and controversies...