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...Positive Christianity." Recalling Adolf Hitler's blanket promise that "the [Nazi] Party never intended and does not intend today to combat Christianity in any way whatever," the Evangelical Manifesto drew attention to the fact that all Nazi organizations, while paying lip service to what they call "positive Christianity," vigorously oppose what they call "negative Christianity." Both these terms are pure Nazi inventions and mean whatever the Nazi locally in charge chooses them to mean. On this the Manifesto quotes Nazi authorities...
...heroine accounts for the nature of Suzy. Because Mutiny on the Bounty, an enormously long and expensive picture, was the No. 1 smash hit of last season, producers this season think that all long and expensive pictures will be hits. Length has another advantage in that it helps combat what producers call the "double bill evil." An additional reason for Suzy's length is that the Legion of Decency would not have permitted a straightforward adaptation of Herbert Gorman's mildly lubricious novel. Consequently the full quota of Harlow appeal which the picture contains had to be injected...
...retail and wholesale trade. Swedish co-operative stores are the most modern in the country. Their wages are high, their salaries low. One by one, K. F. has cracked the tightest cartels in Europe, notably in margarine, electric bulbs and galoshes, a Swedish necessity. Its combat tactics are simply to go into manufacturing, and by now K. F., rather than private business, tends to set prevailing prices, thus bringing the benefits of lower prices to the entire population instead of to cooperators alone...
...sake, were Joseph K. Gaither and Thomas G. Gillis (the latter representing aged President Michael F. Tighe) of the little Amalgamated Steel Union, for whose withered and impotent favors the great forces of industrial and craft unionism within the A. F. of L. had just done mortal combat (TIME, June 15). Messrs. Gaither & Gillis had been members of the Amalgamated Committee which, after several weeks of nervous vacillation, had finally gone over to a group of insurgent A. F. of L. unions combined as the Committee for Industrial Organization. It was these A. F. of L. insurgents...
Steelman Millsop to the presidency of his Weirton Steel Co., making him, at 37, the youngest chief executive in the business. Steelman Millsop quit an open-hearth job to spend three years as a combat pilot with the Canadian and U. S. air forces. After the War, he barnstormed for a while as a stunt flyer, later returned to steel in the blast-furnace department of Youngstown Sheet & Tube. After a few months he moved over to drive rivets for Standard Tank Car Co., shortly shot up to the production manager's desk...