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...after his grandiose reception by Der Führer (TIME, Oct. 4, et seq.) was in an exalted mood last week. About the time the President was speaking in Chicago, the Dictator's Milan newsorgan Il Popolo d'ltalia was printing an editorial in which Mussolini hurled blanket defiance at "capitalism, parliamentary democracy, Communism, liberalism and a certain wavering Catholicism, with which we shall settle accounts in our own fashion some day or other, are against...
Katie Roche was a somewhat inauspicious choice for the opener. A thin play, its characterizations were so unclarified that even the expert Abbeyites seemed uncertain in them. Katie (Eileen Crowe), a young country girl born the wrong side of an aristocratic blanket, is an open-hearted flirt with illusions of grandeur. Rejecting Yokel Michael (Arthur Shields), she marries middleaged, blue-blooded Bachelor Stanislaus Gregg (F. J. McCormick). Crisis of this ill-matched marriage comes when Stanislaus finds artless Katie and naive Michael together, decides to transfer his wife permanently to the less tempting air of Dublin...
Significance. Obviously the Ontario election today resembles not so much a contest between parties as the sort of plebiscite staged by a Dictator when he wants the blanket approval of the people for his measures. About such a poll, honestly conducted as it will be in the Province of Ontario, there is nothing illegal but there is something new. In the streets of Toronto alarmed C. I. 0. adherents shout "Herr Hepburn!" at the Premier and with catcalls give him derisive Nazi salutes...
...nearer to his destined specialty. On his way to Detroit to take a job in an automobile plant, he met a chewing-gum salesman who was working the ''butcher knife deal." Within a year J. Warren Bowman himself was a topnotch gum salesman, exponent of the "Indian blanket deal" (one blanket with every 24 boxes) and part owner of a plant in Lansing, Mich., which turned out a 1? gum called "Ju-Ce-Kiss." In 1927 he started his own plant in Philadelphia, in 1929 produced Blony...
...August 12, the first definitive proof that the solar corona is not made up chiefly of flaming coronal streamers alone, as has been supposed, but is an even, globular blanket covering the sun more than a million miles deep, was revealed by a conference of astronomers at Harvard Observatory...