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...year-old President still retains some grip on the State was seen when he appointed Lieut.-General Baron von Fritsch, an army officer of the old school, to be Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr, thus spiking rumors that the German Army would be turned over to that arrant Nazi queer, Captain Ernst Roehm, Generalissimo of Storm Troops...
...Tracy, as the newspaperman arrant, is in his element, perhaps a bit too much so. Apparently, he has talked as loudly in the studio as in the picture, with the result that some of the minor roles, notably that of Kate, are neglected. Exceedingly competent acting on the part of James Gleason, who plays Lefty, Thomas' assistant, and on the part of Una Merkel, who portrays the fickle femininity of the story, is enough to save the rather weak plot and the overemphasis on Mr. Tracy. The photography contains nothing unusual, except for the introduction of a former Pathe News...
Thus on Dec. 30, when Mr. Gandhi and Congress leaders are scheduled to meet in Allahabad to determine the Congress' future policy (possibly resumption of the Gandhite "passive resistance" boycott of British goods), they will find themselves branded in a large section of the British Press as arrant Reds...
...German Foreign Office branded as "arrant nonsense" the report that Germany would seek revision of the Versailles Treaty at the September meeting of the League of Nations. Such rumors were the fruit of a speech made fortnight ago by Gottfried R. Treviranus, Minister for Occupied Territories, who?campaigning for the newly-formed Conservative People's Party?intimated that the Fatherland still had a hungry eye on that part of East Prussia which is now the Polish Corridor (TIME...
...sake of Progress, for the safety of his progressive régime Dictator Kemal was forced to put such arrant, desperate reactionaries to the sword. In one respect his own capital, progressive Angora, is retrograde. It no longer produces peerless Angora cats. But of all coats the Angora has still the longest, silkiest haired...