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...principal effect in Britain of Herr Hitler's latest aggressions has been to bring the ticklish issue of conscription to the fore. Whereas formerly few politicians would touch the subject with a ten-foot pole, last week it was discussed openly. Another Hitler coup and the last conscription-free nation (except Liechtenstein and Monaco) in Europe may go in for compulsory universal military training...
...Twentieth Century-Fox) exhibits the skyscraper profile of Basil Rathbone becomingly topped by the fore & aft cupola of fiction's most famed detective. Unlike his pipsqueak present-day imitators, who solve crimes while airing their wives' dogs, getting drunk or talking pidgin English, Sherlock Holmes was a literate patrician who always took his work seriously, permitting himself no distractions except an occasional shot of morphine when he was bored. For the Hays Production Code, according to which "the drug traffic should not be presented in any form," Basil Rathbone exhibits proper disdain. But before he asks Watson (Nigel...
Wassily W. Leontief, assistant professor of Economics and Dr. Machlup of Tufts then brought the wage increase problem to the fore and questioned the ease with which taxes could support the increased interest rates...
...seems ridiculous to adopt the attitude that a man must wrestle badly and beneath his abilities to insure team victory. But that is exactly the position adopted by wrestling coaches, especially throughout New England. For the past several years, one of our fore-most rivals in the sport has each year followed this policy of submerging a man for the sake of a few points. Such a situation is much different from that of a football team, for instance, where one man does the dirty work of blocking and tackling to the exclusion of any spectacular ball-carrying...
Herbert Clark Hoover, hands in pockets, stomach to the fore, obviously loving his chance, warned the coming generation that the New Deal had mortgaged it. "It was Republicans," the nation's one living ex-President reiterated, who wrought reforms before Franklin Roosevelt, and would again. The "oxygen of opposition," he said, would save the people from their "rendezvous with debt...