Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Italy's plan to join her eastern and north central holdings in Africa at Britain's expense rests secondarily on her efforts to enlarge the borders of her most recently acquired and indigestible piece of African pie: Ethiopia. Viceroy there and Governor General of Italian East Africa is the ablest member of the Royal Family, Prince Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, first cousin of King Vittorio Emanuele. Into his 42 years this dynamic Duke has packed a great deal of colonial service and fighting in Tripoli, the Sahara, Ethiopia, incognito in the Belgian Congo. Lean and tall...
Pastor Hall (United Artists) is redder meat. Its central character, loosely drawn from famed jailed, nonconformist Pastor Martin Niemböller, is a man whom the Nazi whirlwind strikes where it hurts most, his conscience. When Storm Troopers move into the drowsy little village of Altdorf to give it some political training, Pastor Hall (Wilfrid Lawson) tries hard to understand what the new gospel is about. What happens when he does, and winds up in a concentration camp, is uncomfortably close to modern crucifixion. Released by his friends, Pastor Hall is about to escape when across the street he hears...
Said a solemn statement, published last week in the Communist Daily Worker (circ. 48,601) over the signatures of Chairman William Zebulon Foster and Secretary Earl Browder of the Communist Party: "As of today's issue ... the Daily Worker . . . ceases to be the official central organ of the Communist Party. We believe . . . that the Daily Worker merits and should receive the ... continued . . . support of all American progressives . . . including of course the Communist Party...
Instead of 20%, only 7% of Exposition visitors went to the Palace. Of those, one in ten (7,152) voted their preferences. Most notable of this year's innovations were the collections of modern Mexico and Central and South American paintings, which, gleaned over months of patient travel, had filled the directors with pride and confidence. But of 16 sections in the exhibition, these two polled the fewest votes (56 between them). Most popular section: the U. S.-owned old masters...
...automatic record-changing mechanism for a stack of twelve to 24 discs. But during the past year, in a few western and midwestern U. S. cities, the juke-box has been menaced by science's onward march. The menace: a chain system of jukeboxes, all wired to a central studio with a practically unlimited choice of records, and subscribers all over town. Last week one of the largest companies in the new wired juke-box field, Magic Music, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, began supplying 32 Detroit nightspots...