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...William Green warned workers to resist any changes attempted by employers. All denounced the chiseling which "had been begun in many places." NRA ordered defunct code authorities to wire it collect reports of all code infractions. The reports were withheld from the public but compiled in a great dossier so that they might be recited as a magnificent funeral oration to make the U. S. sorry that NRA had died. Hundreds of concerns announced that they would not cut wages...
...fright at Germany's increasing air power that he proclaimed last year, "The Rhine-that is where our frontier lies!" (TIME, Aug. 13). The scare thus started has since been etched deep into the British mind. The nation and the Cabinet were ripe last week for an elaborate dossier placed by M. Laval impressively upon the big oak table at No. 10 Downing St. This dossier of the French Secret Service and General Staff purported to reveal: 1) just how grossly Adolf Hitler has violated the Treaty of Versailles by rearming Germany, and 2) just how great is Britain...
...close relatives. Her mother flies an airplane out to sea for a glamorous suicide. Dr. Monica and her husband, who is still ignorant that he is the father of the child, adopt the infant and seem delighted with her actions. A trivial contribution to the cinema's dossier on bastardy, Dr. Monica serves to demonstrate the versatility of Warner's latest star, Jean Muir. who was the patient-faced farm girl in .45 the Earth Turns, a pioneer's daughter in The World Changes...
...Arms Dossier. France did have one more weapon to spur public opinion against isolated Germany: the famed secret dossier on hidden munitions and secret arming in Germany. All last week the French Press echoed with threats to publish this document which has cropped up before in bitter League disputes. Neutral observers doubted that it would be published. The document does exist. It is extremely detailed, but France cannot publish its full text without giving German authorities important tips on the how & who of France's military espionage. True in the main, there are also enough Gallic exaggerations and inaccuracies...
...hope of the Anglicans, then convert to Roman Catholicism, finally acknowledged prince of his adopted church, author of the "immortal" Apologia pro vita sua, is now little more than a dusty document, even, at Oxford University where his fame was brightest. Author May, sympathetic archivist, here takes out the dossier and with reverent breath blows off some of the dust...