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Dates: during 1930-1930
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There is no real majority in the Andra Kammaren (Lower House) at Stockholm, any more than there is one in the Chamber of Deputies at Paris. But Swedes are naturally less prone to sudden topplings down of Governments than Frenchmen. The previous Cabinet (Conservative) of Admiral Arvid Lindman, who was forced out fortnight ago (TIME, June 9), had remained in office for 20 months although out of 230 deputies in the Andra Kammaren only 73 are Conservative...
Interesting, also, was the question of the Royal Dutch quid pro quo. The Royal Dutch statement, said that it had contributed its "experience" and certain unspecified patents under its control. There had been no previous mention of Royal Dutch patents comparable to the hydrogenation treatment. Meanwhile, however, Royal Dutch emphatically denied any general alliance with Standard and I. G. F., insisted that the shared patent implied no lessening of competition, no understandings on the division of the world-petroleum trade...
...trust "to the Constitution of the U. S. and the faithful instructions of a previous generation to work moral changes in the tastes and conduct of the people of today...
...sort or another. There is one attraction, however, that is worth a whole season of average productions. This is the movie of "All Quiet on the Western Front." It is the most powerful work that the art of the cinema has yet produced. There are action scenes that make previous war films seem tame, and the impressions made by some of its more dramatic moments are nothing less than overwhelming. Readers of the book need not fear a disappointment, for Remarque's story is made even more vividly real through effects that can only be gained by pictorial imagery...
...Previous Wilkins accomplishments which make his polar submarine trip seem not incredible: extended exploration work in north polar regions with Vilhjalmur ("No Vegetables!") Stefansson, exploration of tropical Australia for the British Museum, flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen with the late Pilot Carl Ben Eielson, 6,000 mi. of flying in south polar regions...