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...appeal," cried Gustav Krupp von Bohlen, "for American understanding-sympathetic understanding-of Germany!" Soon afterward Chancellor Hitler placed the Fatherland's great industrialists on his right hand last week. He created and attached to his Cabinet an advisory Economic Council on which Munitions Tycoon Krupp von Bohlen will rub elbows with Electric Tycoon Carl Friedrich von Siemens and Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen. This was all very well for German business with a big "B" but in politics the Cabinet proceeded to carry on with arbitrary violence. Thirty laws were decreed at a single Cabinet sitting between...
...York Herald Tribune last week headlined its report of a violent day in the Central Methodist Church, Brooklyn: METHODISTS RUB SOCIALIST TRACE OUT OF PLATFORM...
...millers refuse to join the agreement and try to beat wheat down to 80?, Secretary Wallace can, under the law. coerce them into line by suspending their Federal licenses as processors and penalizing them $1,000 each day they continue without a license. Said he: "I want to rub the noses of the people in each industry in the facts and allow them to determine the methods we shall use. In that way we'll keep our skirts clean and make them share the responsibility with...
...Robert Lord have thought up for Cagney, even the few which are carefully outlined, can scarcely be considered monuments of ingenuity. The best is his stunt of advertising a vanishing cream, which does not vanish, as a fat remover, on the assumption that purchasers will lose weight trying to rub it in. Unlike Lee Tracy's somewhat similar picture, The Half Naked Truth, Hard to Handle depends less upon journalistic exaggerations about an exciting profession than upon the personality of its principal. Cagney, talking and galloping a little faster than usual, is still wholly successful in the character part...
...concerns (1931 earnings: $19,000,000; assets: $175,000,000). Although Drug owns the Liggett drugstores, its chief source of income is from making and selling such products as Fletcher's Castoria, Life Savers, 3-In-One Oil, Danderine, Bayer's Aspirin, Vitalis, Vick's Vapo-Rub, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Ingram's Shaving Cream, Gastrogen Tablets, Sal Hepatica, Ipana, Cascarets and scores of other things to purge, beautify, bolster and assuage mortal beings. A lesser fount of Drug income is in its control (75%) of Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., the owner...