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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer and his ally ended their talk, the press attack on Poland did not end, but slacked off perceptibly. Customs negotiations between Danzig and Poland, scheduled to begin the next day, were postponed a few days-obviously, said correspondents in Danzig, to let Nazis find out what had been decided on the mountaintop. League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig, Dr. Carl Burckhardt conferred with Herr Hitler, launching a new crop of rumors: 1) that a settlement of the Danzig problem was in the air; 2) that Danzig might be part of a general European settlement. Count Ciano went back...
...fate reminded all Europe that the difference between maneuvers and real war is that maneuvers can be called off if the troops get stalled, the tanks run out of gas, the weather gets bad, the people get restless, the boss gets sick, the theories prove wrong, and the generals begin to quarrel...
...least desirable jobs in Russia is that of the People's Commissar for Agriculture. Among his many nightmares: Supposing ignorant peasants in Siberia leave their shiny new tractors out in the snow? Supposing collective farmers begin to act like rugged individualists in the Ukraine? In these or many other possible cases, his probable fate will be that of a Fascist-Trotskyist wrecker. Ivan Alexandrovich Benediktov, latest to gamble his life in this advanced post, took over the Commissariat last autumn. According to the Moscow Pravda he immediately set about "eradicating" his predecessor Robert Indrikovich Eikhe's "left-overs...
...week at the Aquacade-and Billy says he is clearing from the Aquacade after expenses as much as $80,000 a week. Although the Fair takes a cut ranging from 8% to 25% of gross receipts from amusement concessions, under Rose's contract his payments did not begin until he had recouped $160,000 he spent to roof the Marine Amphitheatre and build a swimming pool (his total Aquacade investment...
Cinema cycles usually begin when some foresighted or lucky producer scores a bull's-eye with a shot in the dark. They usually last until there is no room left on the target. Last week there was a volley of shots-in-the-dark when three major moviemakers simultaneously fired away at the same place, released big-budget pictures chronicling the doings of the white man in Africa. Two bull's-eyes and one clean miss, last week's African broadside practically amounted to a cinema cycle in itself...