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Saturation. In spite of their tempestuous campaign and the assistance given them by the Junker Cabinet, the Hitlerites polled almost exactly the same number of votes that they did in the April presidential election. German observers have com pared the growth of Hitlerism to the growth of the Ku Klux Klan in the U. S. saying that its appeal was irresistible to a certain class of citizens - in the case of Germany, the conservative, impoverished lower middle class. Thirteen million Ger mans voted for Adolf Hitler in April. That, observers felt, was nearly 100% of the class. Since then Naziism...
...wrists and hanged himself on his Montmartre bedroom doorknob in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). Ganso was Pascin's star pupil. Pascin is still Ganso's model as an artist. Ganso paints and draws the same loose-hipped women, is partial to the same drooping, bulbous com position. Like Pascin, he makes a fetish of loyalty to his friends. Unlike Pascin, who hated fresh air and getting up before noon, he plays all games, though poorly...
...either from the Manhattan stage or from European cinema. Not so Karen Morley. Christened Mabel Linton in Ottumwa, Iowa, she went to Los Angeles when she was 13, attended Holly wood High School. After her sophomore year at the University of California at Los Angeles she joined the Pasadena Com munity Playhouse. When Director Clarence Brown was casting male actors for Inspiration, he asked Karen Morley, hired as an extra, to read Greta Garbo's lines. She did it well enough to get a screen test, a part in Inspiration, a long-term contract. Now approximately 22, Cinemactress...
...face the fact that society provides no adequate economic security for those who help produce its wealth." Recommendations: A planned industrial economy, shortened labor hours, abolition of child labor, introduction of unemployment, accident and disability insurance, the turning of public income from armament building to "productive employment enriching the com mon life." A committee of three bishops was named to urge immediate jobless relief on President Hoover. ¶Condemnation of gambling "from the crap game in a slum alley to speculation on the Stock Exchange." Recommendation: more vigorous enforcement of gambling laws...
...petroleum she produces. By distributing the present Russian surplus among all companies, world price-wars would be avoided. Hope was that Russia could be kept from producing for export any more than she exported last year. Another subject much discussed was the allocation of territories to avoid such com petition as exists in England where Russia has invaded Sir Henri's favorite market. Since the Russians did not have full power to act it was thought that they would return to confer with their government following any agreement. A second conference might be called for late summer...