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...clock of bleak Winton Green Prison in Birmingham chimed 9. A milk delivery cart rattled down the street outside the prison walls, where 500 persons stood shivering in a cold Midlands...
...weakish story, Goose Step, portraying the sufferings in a concentration camp of a group of anti-Nazis of no particular politics. Most of them are finally released. Their leader (Roland Drew) escapes with no more trouble than it takes to run across a field to a hay cart, finds it just as easy to rejoin his wife (Steffi Duna) in Switzerland...
...Guard, an old-line band of native anti-Semite terrorists organized soon after World War I, repeatedly accused by "Little Hercules" of now receiving funds from the newer German Nazis. One afternoon last week, as the Premier was being driven home to lunch, a young woman suddenly shoved a cart in front of his car, which was forced to stop with squealing brakes. At the same moment up swooped two cars from which leaped masked gunmen. They rapidly blazed away at Little Hercules. His bodyguard went down under the fusillade, his chauffeur collapsed, and the Rumanian Premier toppled forward riddled...
...Program last week (see col. 3). He simply surrendered the ball to his opposed advisers on the fourth down to let them see what they could do with it. By his speech to the Retailers week before he was still committed personally to more spending and the cart-before-the-horse theory that the New Deal would work economically when an 80-billion dollar income is achieved, a defense notably limned by Cartoonist Burt K. Thomas in the Detroit News...
...world), and a gold, lacquer and mother-of-pearl teakwood Dragon Throne on which Manchu emperors had sat from the 17th Century to the close of their reign. In great secrecy the pagoda and throne, (together valued at $3,000,000) were spirited out of China by coolie cart, mule train, river junk and railroad, across Siberia and thence to The Netherlands, where they were stored in the Amsterdam Municipal Museum. Thence, recently, Museum Director Fritz Loew-Beer sent them to the U. S. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. wanted the pagoda and throne for an exhibition of Chinese treasures...