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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wise heads both in London and Paris know that many Italian officers and upper-class soldiers can be and have been withdrawn from Spain. Most of them are replaced after three or four months' service, but the dumb thousands lurching in motor trucks and tramping muddy roads in Spain last week "know too much," are too discontented and are political dynamite too explosive to be brought back to Italy at this time...
...establishments, featured by "castles" built like medieval keeps, where the Leaders will be schooled. Most nearly completed is Castle Crossen-see in Pomerania, where the Leaders sleep in low, thatched buildings intended to suggest National Socialist links with the peasantry and the soil. Training at Crossensee of the first class of Leaders has just been completed and they are now going to work as teachers of 1,080 Leaders, youths between 20 and 28 who have passed four rigorous physical examinations, are pure Aryans, will devote 60% of their time to instruction in sports, must all become competent aviators before...
Brilliantly adapted by Jo Swerling from a play by Ferenc Molnar, played up to the hubcaps by cinema's most famed comedy couple and high-class supporters, Double Wedding is a 100% sample of the haywire school. Its only flaw is that, with Hollywood's destructive knack for stylizing all its gestures, the technique of haywire comedy has reached a monotonous perfection. After two screwy characters have been established as potential sweethearts and their lives thoroughly scrambled with another couple's, the main element of suspense is what kind of melee the plot can wind...
Banker Gates, who had danced for the Mask & Wig Club as an undergraduate at the U. of P. (Class of 1893) and gone on to become one of Philadelphia's richest men, became bored with private banking in 1930, resigned as a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. to seek "romance and high adventure" in running his old university, which he insisted on doing without pay. Soon he put Education on a business basis, balancing the budget by reducing expenses from $9,000,000 to $6,000,000 a year, projecting a 15-year money-raising program to replace...
...first nine months Libbey-Owens was nearly $1,500,000 above last year's $7,369,960. An old market standby, American Telephone & Telegraph reported that in the fiscal year ending Aug. 31 earnings were up from $165,400,000 to $195,500,000. Operating revenue for 92 Class i railroads in September was $296,700,000 compared to $295,000,000 last year. But New York Central's August net was off from...