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Even the presence of Lorre can't offset the dialogue and pilot sufficiently to keep the vehicle afloat. It might also be said that there is a love element in "Crack Up," even as it might be added that Buster Crabbe appears with pants on in "Murder goes to College...
...Moscow--democracy versus dictatorship. England to him is the symbol of steady progress, of rock built upon rock, of the stability which comes with age and conservatism and gradualness. Mr. Millis does not repress his admiration for the Russian's religious devotion to "their cause". This is the great element of strength in the Russian system--the patriotic faith and believing optimism of the whole nation. But his bourgeois heritage and his inborn conservatism clearly rebel against the artificiality of the entire Soviet state. Synthetic Moscow with its half-built hotels and unfinished factories does not digest well...
...press, and in the draft bill masterfully underemphasized, was the specific, final, crucial point of the entire performance: a proposal to swell the Supreme Court-should septuagenarians decline to retire-from nine to 15 members, an increase of two Justices larger than the confirmed anti-New Deal element of the present Court...
...Howard, the Generalissimo added a prediction that his White Army would be received with "enthusiasm" on entering Catalonia by all except the terrorist Red element. Few days later, his Whites finally overwhelmed Malaga, the last enemy stronghold on Spain's south coast, broadcast that they had been welcomed with "enthusiasm" while Red militia fled headlong from the city, as well they might. Few hours after No. 2 White General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, "The Radio General," entered Malaga he broadcast that he was setting up courts-martial, that "Marxists will be instantly executed!" By nightfall nearly 5,000 persons...
...assume the responsibility for the safety of the passengers and cargoes. He is perfectly willing that the steamship companies should continue to shoulder this burden; all he wants is to dictate whom the companies shall employ. But there is as yet no "automatic pilot" for ships, and the human element is still by far the most important. Obviously therefore, aside from all consideration of the inherent unfairness of the monopolistic demand of Mr. Bridges, human safety demands that those responsible be given unfettered freedom to select men who will provide that safety...