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...hours and 81 pages of testimony later, weary Franklin Roosevelt had uncovered neither political dynamite nor very much else, told the directors to give him further "facts" a week later either in person or in writing. Breaking his silence, Chairman Morgan had the last word: "I personally want to thank the President very much for the fine consideration he has shown...
Also on today's program is "Love and Hisses," Simone Simon's debut as a Singing Sensation. Actually, the merits of the picture are more on the comedy than the musical side, with Bert Lahr and Joan Davis doing a wonderful job. Peter Lorre's "Thank You, Mr. Moto!" is the companion piece. This would be a good enough bill, even without The Hour...
...celebrate its 15th birthday, TIME is reviving malicious libel. . . . Referring to TIME, Vol. 1, No. 1, Miscellany: a Polish Jew does not thank God he is not "a dog, a woman, of a Christian." A Polish Jew gives prayer of thanks "he was not created a slave, he was not created a woman, he was not created a goy." There is no reference to dogs in the entire Jewish prayer book. The prayer originated 2,000 years ago in days of slavery, legal incapacity for females, idolatry among the goyim. Goy does not mean a Christian. Goyim literally means...
Although Dr. Jung stipulates that there is "an authentic religious function in the unconscious mind," orthodox religionists will not thank him for the left-handed compliment. "What is usually and generally called religion," he declares, "is to such an amazing degree a substitute that I ask myself seriously whether this kind of 'religion,' which I prefer to call a creed, has not an important function in human society. The substitution has the obvious purpose of replacing immediate experience by a choice of suitable symbols invested in a solidly organized dogma and ritual. The Catholic Church maintains them...
...unusual glut of expensive motion pictures thrust forth by Hollywood in recent weeks,* cinemaudiences probably have the California tax collector to thank. For all film, raw or exposed, on Hollywood shelves when the assessors make their annual visits on March's first Monday, the studios are taxed. The way to beat the tax is to empty the shelves. When the assessors made their rounds this week, most cupboards were bare. But at luckless Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the vast amount of film necessary for Norma Shearer's Marie Antoinette was still in stock, the picture only half completed...