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...Motors Corp.'s statement appeared. Its nine-month net of $97,455,000 compared to $131,403,000 last year, while the September quarter's $13,000,000 was scarcely more than half of last year's third-quarter's $25,000,000. While a comparison of General Motors' nine-month results with those of Chrysler indicate a reverse trend at the moment, GM's resistance to Depression has been outstanding in the industry. In 1929 its net for common was off 10% from 1928 while Chrysler's fell 27.6% despite a large...
...German situation. Some, of the questions treated included that of Germany acting as a block for the west against the advance of the Russian system; the Hitler movement caused further discussion; in Czechoslovakia the large number of Germans included in this young nation provoked opinions on minority difficulties; comparison was made between tax burdens by citizens of England, France, and Germany...
...title of the first lecture will be "Modern German and Modern American Architecture. A Comparison"; that of the second, "Frank Lloyd Wright Seen Through German Eyes...
...Brothers will find it marvellously funny. Admirers of Harpo Marx who, when he smiles, looks like a maniacal Charlie Chaplin, will be particularly pleased. He is still the funniest as well as the most versatile Marx. Young Zeppo is more active than usual but he seems a dullard in comparison to his funnier brothers. Zeppo (Herbert) Marx has always been embarrassed by the necessity for playing pallid roles which cause spectators to say that there are only three and one-half Marx brothers. When the Marx Brothers were playing Animal Crackers on the stage, Producer Sam H. Harris said...
...your reasons are alike, impress reasonable minds as having built up a formidable argument at the expense of clear duty and justice. It is not wholly a formidable case, at that. The generality with which your editorial states that funds raised in such a way would be negligible in comparison with the evil worked on administrative policy, seems to indicate a trifle of uncertainty, of lack of self-conviction, on your own part. I do not like to see either you or President Lowell practice intellectual acrobatics, or, what is worse, fall back on a safe, selfish administrative policy...