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...weekly with so few concessions to the popular taste must face a rather discouraging financial future. The Nation, although it has been fortified by the purse and picturesqueness of Oswald Garrison Villard, exists precariously, and even so challenging a publication as the New Republic must rely largely upon endowment for its support. Polity is less sensational, farther removed from the meretricious mens Americans which finds its nourishment in such journals as the successful Time and leaves the American Mercury to slide into the quiet tenor of bankruptcy. Perhaps Polity can afford the limitation on popularity which its mild and legal...
Died. Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosley, 34, onetime (1929-31) Labor Member of Parliament, wife of Britain's Fascist leader, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley; after an operation for peritonitis following acute appendicitis; in London, England...
...Then, singlehanded, with $40. he tried to make an animated cartoon cinema called Steamboat Willie. His brother lent him several hundred dollars more to photo graph it and get to Hollywood. The pic ture did not sell but it got him a studio job. Soon after he invented an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon. Sound came to the cinema and his boss scrapped Oswald and Disney. With $15,000 savings, he and his elder brother went to work on an animated cartoon cinema with sound & dialog synchronized. Its hero was first named Mortimer Mouse, its leading lady Minnie. Mortimer soon became...
...what it was all about came Istvan Antal, press chief of Hungary and special representative of Premier Gombos, Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta of Switzerland and the Polish Minister to Berlin, Dr. Alfred Wysocki. Also in Rome, though only an unnoticed bystander, was that exuberant British Fascist, 'Sir Oswald Mosley, who put in his word: "Fascism can and will win England...
Into the Fairey before dawn one day last week, climbed Squadron Leader Oswald Robert Gayford, 41, a stolid sharp-beaked pilot long seasoned in the R. A. F. After him went a handsome youngster named Flight-Lieut. Gilbert E. Nicholetts. As the big plane lumbered down the concrete runway, sparks spouted comet-like from her tailskid. It was 7:15 a.m. By 7 :15 p. m. she was roaring across the north coast of Africa. During most of the day, the "robot" controls had steadied her through thick weather. Not until they were over the Sahara that night could...