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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Regarded by Englishmen as a cold-as-a-fish lawyer, Sir John is known to Irishmen as the husband of an ardent Irishwoman and the man who defended Ireland in the terroristic days of the Black & Tan. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was pleased to find that de Valera no longer went off in rambling monologues or rattled the ghost of Cromwell as he did at previous Anglo-Irish meetings...
Declared distinctly less urbane Minister Without Portfolio Alexander Cuza, aged 80: "It is for the world to find a residence for the world's Jews! Madagascar seems a suitable spot...
...State boxing commission and five sports writers, among them Mr. Van Every. Fairy-tale-teller Powers related solemnly how the Seven Dwarfs had promised Snow Mike "they would all 'take care' of her. All but 'Grumpy' Barker. Grumpy warned them some day some one would find out they were supporting Snow Mike and they would be punished...
Happy Landing (Twentieth Century-Fox), is blonde, Figure Skater Sonja Henie's third motion picture, makes it clear that Producer Darryl Zanuck must soon find some other way of keeping Miss Henie's films fresh than by putting them on ice. To give Sonja presentable, even spectacular, settings in which to display her twinkling, silver-bladed eurythmy is a set designer's holiday. But to blend a plot with her icebound talents is something not even a Zanuck budget seems to be able to accomplish. Happy Landing makes Miss Henie a million-dollar sideshow on a cheapskate...
...only do conferences of this sort stimulate undergraduate interest in government, but they also enable the outside world to find out just what the college man thinks--or, at least, that he does think--about the perplexing problems...