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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such articles are conceived in malice and born of political spite. They are deliberately framed to give a false impression- in other words to "frame" the American people...
...Couzens lost to Wilber Marion Brucker, who was Republican Governor of Michigan until he was washed out on the ebb of the Old Deal tide in 1932. Last April when Mr. Brucker decided to run against Senator Couzens he had in his favor the following facts: 1) he was born on June 23, 1894, the same day that the then Duchess of York gave birth to the now Edward VIII; 2) he was the son of a onetime Democratic Congressman; 3) he was a pre-Repeal Dry; 4) he weighed 200 lb.; 5) he was an Elk, Mason, Moose...
...This was to order to Toledo thousands of gallons of gasoline, to be squirted by means of fire engines into Spain's West Point, and, by setting it alight, flood the Alcázar with searing flame until the last cadet, woman and child and the two babies born during the siege were burned out in Spain's most savage and futile farce...
...merely a rough preliminary sketch pointed toward a later and more finished film version. Several of the roles are undertaken by minor Hollywood actors, whose performances are about on a par with what is expected in a Works Progress Administration show. A reformed prostitute shoots her high-born but estranged father when he refuses to give her money for her true love, who has been forced to steal $1,000 to send his old mother to a sanatorium...
Visiting star is an importation from India-Dr. E. (for Eli) Stanley Jones, who humbly calls himself "evangelist 10 the high castes of India." Born in Baltimore in 1884, Dr. Jones went to India as a Methodist missionary in 1907, has since made frequent excursions to the U. S., has sent forth several best-selling books. -The Christ of the Indian Road (over 600,000 copies), Christ at the Round Table, The Christ of Every Road, The Christ on the Mount, Christ and Human Suffering. In 1928 the Methodist Episcopal Church elected Dr. Jones a bishop. He immediately resigned, preferring...