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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alles and the Horst Wessel song to be played at a gala theatrical evening for the royal couple, while Dutch indignation sent speeding to Berlin an extremely stiff note in which Her Majesty's Government demanded that the German Government make its press mind its manners. Scheduled to appear at the gala were some broad Dutch comedians famed for an act in which the chief funster appears as Kaiser Wilhelm II, then strips off gold lace, upturned mustaches and so forth until he finally ends in a plain uniform and smudge mustache as Adolf Hitler. At the last minute...
...judge in Michigan who works part time in a General Motors plant . , . is a member of the United Automobile Workers of America and is interested in the success of the strike. Union lawyers appear before this judge and he grants them a petition directing General Motors officials to bargain collectively with the union. . . . What would General Motors officials do when the injunction was served upon them? First, they would probably laugh and say to the sheriff, "Don't be silly, that judge holds a union card." And on sober second thought they would probably get mad and want...
...dependent for their exercise on the minor sports which are liable to demotion. The desultory interest shown in House athletics shows that the step from intercollegiate to intramural status is a big one, and that many students find the spur of scheduled outside matches necessary to make them appear at all in the gymnasium or on the field. To abolish this competition would be to start a rapid decline in some of the most worthwhile of Harvard athletic pursuits...
While waiting for the instructor to appear, a confident Yardling struck up a conversation with a fellow in the class on the subject of swimming. Admitting that he was fairly good at the sport, the Freshman advanced theories which the other man hotly opposed. "Why", said the Freshman, "I'll bet ten dollars that I can swim the suit off you at fifty yards". The bet accepted and the date arranged, the natators mentioned to each other their best times for the distance, fifty four seconds by the Freshman and twenty three by his rival. "When you go down...
...More Than a Secretary" shows Jean Arthur in a rather futile effort to appear plain-looking as secretary to George Brent, who, as a sort of streamlined Bernarr MacFadden, publishes a health magazine. Mr. Brent is kept in condition by his Brooklyn masseur, Lionel Stander, who reaches new heights as a comedian in this production...