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...added little glory to individual Representatives. The coming session was the one that most voters would have firmly in mind when they march to the polls next November to choose the 74th Congress. Last week each & every Representative was determined to make a Capitol record before summer which, by hook or crook, would return him to his present seat one year hence...
Jews in Berlin's ghetto were forced to act in Horst Wessel last August by Storm Troopers who gave them "stones" (made of cork), ordered them to stone Nazi heroes. Overzealous, the Storm Troops pressed into service an especially hook-nosed rabbi. He turned out to be a citizen of Poland, thus creating a diplomatic incident. In a night club scene, according to the Horst Wessel script, "proud Jews behave overbearingly." A greedy Jew was made to wolf a fat goose in a restaurant scene, while at the next table a lean Nazi couple divided a herring. These features...
...England's outlaws and murderers have been placed in his care, and he has been present at every execution except one since he became sheriff. In his collection of lethal weapons and souvenirs of notorious criminals and the crimes they have perpetrated throughout New England, is a splicing hook to make the noose fit more snugly around the victim's neck, and the famous letter given to Sheriff Fairbairn by a condemned murderer just before he went up the steps to the gallows. This letter warns that frequenting saloons or touching liquor in any form will sooner or later lead...
...foregoing statements are not only false, but like half-truths are infinitely more harmful than if they were barefaced shameless falsehoods. They are beneath the level and dignity of any high-class journal or publication. Your gullibility in swallowing these accusations, hook, line and sinker, is unthinkable. I cannot understand how any self-respecting reporter, however careless or incompetent, could fail to ascertain the facts before putting such a story in print. It appears that this article must have been inspired from other sources, as it would be difficult to impute to your publication such a total absence...
...picture very nearly as good as Seventh Heaven. Take a Chance (Paramount) exhibits more of the appalling difficulties which, in the cinema, surround any attempt to produce a musical comedy. Four raffish members of an itinerant carnival (James Dunn, Lillian Roth, Cliff Edwards, June Knight) straggle by hook or crook into the cast of a show being produced by an impressionable young socialite (Charles "Buddy" Rogers). After amicable bickerings between Dunn & Roth and Rogers & Knight, and after the efforts of a villainous café proprietor to commit the cardinal sin of preventing the show from going on, the first night...