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...ller's last hours ebbed away in complete coma. He died after a gall-bladder operation at Berlin, aged 54. So fast have German Cabinets fallen since the War that Dr. Müller's short total period of two years as Chancellor stands as the second longest record...
Speech, Speech. While he was at it, Judge Duff made one of the longest and least exciting Speeches from the Throne that Canada has ever heard. The Bennett Government (whose members, of course, wrote the speech) did so well at the election last year (TIME, Aug. 11), that they can sit back with impregnable parliamentary strength, lofty and vague...
...word commonly (but erroneously) called "longest in the English language"* seldom appears in the news and could be defined by few English-speakers. It crept into last week's news when a little body called the National Free Church Assembly gathered at Weston-super-Mare, Somer-setshire, England, and urged that, "in the interests of the Kingdom of God, the Anglican Church should be disestablished and disendowed...
Trader Horn (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The longest, bitterest journey of Trader Horn ended last week at Hollywood's Chinese Theatre. In 1928, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sent two actresses, two actors, Director W. S. Van Dyke and some technicians on an eight-month junket into Africa to shoot the most capricious game of all?an idea. Alfred Aloysius Horn, 75, all-talking hero of Ethelreda Lewis' book, was their theme. Jungle hardships were ameliorated by an ice plant, good food-&-drink, comfortable housing. The real difficulties developed when the film arrived back in California. It would not jell; the script...
...these Oil Barons are themselves frightened, and, I believe, now is the time to strike." Immediate reason for the Doherty blast was a conference of independent oilmen, called by the Governors of eleven oil States. But at this meeting, in Washington, Government-control was not an issue. Loudest and longest were speeches urging an oil tariff...