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...leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees...
...Bamberger & Co.'s department store, Newark. There he helped build radio station WOR, annotated its Philharmonic Orchestra broadcasts for three years, was appointed sales and publicity director at 23. Six years later he took the same post with Lord & Taylor's store, planned their crisp black and white advertisements, recommended more truthful copy, fewer superlatives. In 1935 Saks Fifth Avenue made him their vice president (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935). Between times he darted off to Europe every summer, predicted Hitler's success six months before the event, advised New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...
Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn) and her sister Flora (Elizabeth Allan) are daughters of a mid-Victorian prig (Donald Crisp) who, to punish them for disobeying their governess, can think of nothing more suitable than to marry them off. Flora soon weds a young officer in the Navy. Pam's young man turns out to be a cad; he leaves her on the verge of becoming a husbandless mother. When an accident kills off Flora's ensign, Flora, also pregnant, dies of the shock. Painful but convenient, the circumstances of her death - in Italy where both sisters are holidaying...
With the presence in Palestine last week of crisp, determined Lieutenant-General John Greer Dill, newly appointed Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Palestine, and the arrival at Haifa of a thousand British troops daily, there began with a vengeance the British Government's "mopping-up campaign" against Arabs who five months ago declared a general strike and began raising Ned in general to protest against Jewish immigration. In a brisk clash last week near Jenin between Arab citizens and British land & air forces, 53 Arabs and one British soldier were killed. All over the country Arabs were...
...over. For the time being, every Barcelona factory capable of being converted to make war materials was running full blast, the Madrid Cabinet buying hand-over-fist everything it could get to arm its militia, paying with gold from the vaults of the Bank of Spain and with crisp new pesetas from its printing presses. Barcelona landlords found their tenants enthusiastically agreed that all rents had been reduced 50%. Small factories and little shops remained under direction of their owners as their workers talked Anarchism...