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...that he forged the securities they hold for his prior loans; if they do not lend him 100,000,000 francs more, he will ruin them. This bit of blackmail lands Paul in Devil's Island. To Rio de Janeiro promptly dash Paul's dog-faithful bodyguard Dirk (rough-and-humble Victor McLaglen) to tend bar, Paul's lissome wife Irene (Sigrid Gurie) to resume her career as a cabaret songster, both to plot Paul's release...
Premier: Dr. Dirk Jan de Geer...
Last week 69-year-old Jonkheer Dirk Jan de Geer, leader of The Netherlands' Christian Historical Party, talked like a Dutch uncle to his parliamentary colleagues. They had just turned in a vote of no confidence in old Dr. Hendrikus Colijn, thereby throwing out a Ministry that had lasted two days. Basic issue was unemployment relief: Catholics and Socialists wanted to know why, if the Government could spend $165,000,000 on three new cruisers, it could not spend $17,000,000 on Holland's 350,000 unemployed...
Small and stocky, the most arresting thing about him is his speech. He never uses a plain word when there is a fancy one handy. A knife he calls a dirk. Besides giving advice on the air and by mail, the Voice spends about $45,000 a year to provide operations for babies born with harelip or cleft palate, spectacles for myopic children, etc. He also sends boys & girls through college without revealing to them the source of their scholarships, helps unmarried mothers through childbirth...
After hearing Professor Dirk J. Stuick, of M.I.T. explain the relation of Marxism to science, the John Reed Society broke wide open just as compromise was in sight on allowing non-Marxist talks to be heard...