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...been generally agreed that Reichs-Chancellor Hitler's manipulation of foreign opinion has lacked something of subtlety and fact; but it was thought that in domestic matters at any rate, the man possessed a moderate amount of political common sense. And now even this last tender illusion seems in a fair way of being roughly uprooted. Speaking at the inaugural of the Berlin automobile show, the Chancellor, to all intents and purposes, promised the German people that the nation would soon have as cheap cars as the inhabitants of the United States can boast, and as large a percentage...
...Committee draft, 390 Representatives voted "yea," seven lone Republicans cried "no." The bill was passed on to the Senate. When weeks or months hence it is returned to the House for concurrence, few Representatives will be able to recognize the bill they approved last week with such tender care...
...there was little jubilation in the Press last week. The President, vexed by the whole irksome business, had spanked the publishers on three tender spots, 1) He "requested" big newspapers in big cities to put reporters on a five day, 40 hr. week; 2) he "ordered" a new report on child labor (newsboys); 3) he laughed off the Freedom of Press clause as having "no more place [in the code] than would the recitation of the whole Constitution or the Ten Commandments. . . . The freedom guaranteed by the Constitution is a freedom of expression and that will be scrupulously respected...
...value of their stock tobogganned in all markets. Many an observer wondered last week whether the President had not made a political misstep. The President was put in an uncomfortable position when Colonel Lindbergh wired him a protest that commanded the attention of the country. This criticism touched a tender White House spot. Stephen T. Early, the President's second assistant secretary, met it with a double-barreled reply. One barrel went off with a smart bang: Colonel Lindbergh, famed for his Press-shyness, had deliberately sought "publicity" by releasing his telegram to the newspapers before giving the President...
Catherine the Great (London Films) is more tender than The Private Life of Henry the VlII (Charles Laughton), more glittering than Queen Christina (Greta Garbo). But what makes this sumptuous pageant of antique Russia noteworthy is the presence in the title rôle of an able Viennese actress named Elizabeth Bergner...