Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...relief for Finland went forward: the Finnish Relief Fund raised its first $1,000,000; Herbert Hoover rounded up a committee of industrialists, got them to pledge $1,000,000 more. The National Labor Organizations Division of Finnish Relief, hampered in its formative stages by the delicate problem of Communists in the labor movement, at last got organized...
...Nazi Germany's greatest gifts to the U. S. is Professor Hans Albrecht Bethe of Cornell University. A brilliant theorist in atomic physics, modest, demure Dr. Bethe probes straight to the core of an abstruse problem, then brings to bear on that core his remarkable mathematical equipment so that the answer comes leap ing out like a weasel out of a smoked hole. Educated at Kiel, Frankfort and Munich, Hans Bethe, whose mother is Jewish, was holding a post at Munich when the Nazis came in. He left Germany in 1933, taught and researched in England for a while...
...Spanish Jew, Biographer de Madariaga satisfies himself about the rest. Explained (for him) is Colón's mysterious caginess about his origins-only Nazi Germany is unhealthier for Jews than was Spain under the Inquisition. (De Madariaga's account of Spain's complex Jewish problem of that day is a model of lucidity.) This explains to de Madariaga the reason why Colón's sponsors were invariably converted Jews, who formed a sort of braintrust for Ferdinand and Isabel...
Lecture Foundation is Problem...
...Time Wife" is another average picture, and maybe two average pictures will do just as well as one good picture and a stinker. New the plot of this picture may not be very new, but you can see that it deals with a pretty important problem. Especially important to Linda Darnell--she's the wife--who doesn't think it's such a good idea to be a wife only during the day-time. That's only normal of course, and Ty Power was an ass not to realize it sooner than he did; but anyway the horse-play that...