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...least of Joseph Stalin's feats of violence in Soviet Russia has been to suppress and subjugate the famed Cossacks of the Don, for centuries Russia's boldest spirits, enjoying special immunities from the Tsar in return for their deathless loyalty and arrogant readiness to shoot down proletarian scum at the drop of a shaggy caracul hat. Some 20,000 members of the eleven Cossack tribes are now exiles, scattered throughout the world. Best known Cossack among non-Cossacks today is the distinguished War commander, General Peter Nikolaevitch Krasnov, blood-curdling author of such best sellers as From...
...humored backstage musicomedy of which the two most noticeable ingredients are Ruby Keeler's legs and Al Jolson's mother complex. Since neither constitutes a novelty to U. S. cinema audiences, Go Into Your Dance is not likely to add to Warner Brothers' stature as the boldest experimenters in Hollywood. But. since both are legitimate embellishments for a story about an overconfident song-&-dance man regenerated by the good influence of a partner who keeps him sober and rescues him from the clutch of a gangster's wife (Helen Morgan), Go Into Your Dance is satisfactory...
...That boldest of bold Jews, massive, magnetic, organ-voiced Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, gave the World Jewish Conference in placid Geneva a mighty rousing last week. "We Jews are in the front-line trenches," he cried. "We are the 'Belgium' of the latest German war against mankind. The mighty army of Christendom and Civilization stands behind us and around...
...work; 3) the badge license idea would cost taxpayers a great sum, might develop into "a legal machine devoid of human kindness, causing hundreds of unnecessary arrests." Backing up A. N. P. A. was the International Circulation Managers Association which met in Manhattan this week just before the hearing. Boldest opponent of the proposed changes was Publisher Jerome D. Barnum of the Syracuse (N. Y. ) Post-Standard who, like many another publisher, performs extensive social welfare work among his delivery boys. Snapped he: "I shall certainly oppose the modifications at the hearing and refuse to assent to them...
This obvious political possibility stung the Republicans into a frenzy. Angrily cried Minority Leader Bert Snell: "This is probably the boldest attempt ever made by a political party to pay 105,000 Democratic political election day workers out of the Federal Treasury." Under gag rule Democratic leadership sandwiched in the census bill after all members had been summoned to the floor to pass a processing tax on hogs. Shrilled Massachusetts' Republican Martin: "It is eminently fitting the leadership of the House should assign this pork bill to follow the roll call on the hog bill...