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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roach and Mussolini cinema producing firm R.A.M. (TIME, Oct. 4), was sued last week for $30,000 by Dr. Renato Senise, the Italian who originally thought up the idea and brought Roach to Rome. In Hollywood, Messrs. Roach and Mussolini had been more & more embarrassed as fewer & fewer people came to their parties and the "20-day" instruction period young Mussolini was to put in in the film capital was cut to seven after cinema trade papers carried full-page ads denouncing Vittorio Mussolini for having bombed Ethiopians last year and quoting him as having said...
...Dictator in the classic sense, the Führer does not so much dictate as preside over a cluster of semiautonomous, mutually-jealous State and Party cliques, intervening chiefly when their affairs have reached a crisis. In his alternately moody or excited fashion Hitler talks with fewer leading men in a week than Mussolini calls in and actively bosses in a day. By last week German industrialists, whose every major move is controlled by either the Economics Ministry or the Reichsbank or both, were nearly frantic as they tried to find out what was actually going to be the future...
...fewer than three institutions offered courses in international relations under the dramatic label of WAR! At New York University's General Education Division, The Next War was to be illustrated by maps of the theatres of the coming conflict, by snapshots and movies of European military forces taken by Professor Charles Hodges. At Hobart College motion pictures of the World War were to be shown in a course on War & Peace. In The Problem of War Wesleyan University promised to prescribe "practical, effective steps for preventing...
...officers last spring, the Council this year will try to have many more debates on its schedule. Also it will endeavor to initiate an "open team" policy whereby as many men as possible may take part in the arguments. In the past the tendency has been towards fewer and fewer actual participants...
With the Chinese withdrawal to their prepared positions behind Shanghai almost completed, the Shanghai front was quiet last week, though planes and big guns brought the International Settlement again under fire. There were fewer casualties than usual. After five weeks of bloody experience Chinese had finally learned that the streets are no place to be in during an air raid...