Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lipponcott ($3.50). "Sky Hooks" are round hooks to hang painter's scaffolding...
...eyes of police, who also watched narrowly those who read their church bulletin boards, pasted with posters urging them to marry in the church. In his palace Cardinal Innitzer switched on his radio, listened to an open-air rally at which 100,000 Nazis shouted "Pfui Innitzer!" and "Hang the black dog!" during a furious speech by Nazi Commissioner Josef Bürckel. Calling the Cardinal a friend of Jews, burly Herr Bürckel declared that negotiations with the Catholics to settle the matter of religious schools and seminaries-hitherto kept secret-were definitely off. Cardinal Innitzer switched...
...amusing, a genuinely exciting picture. The plot, which concerns an ace newsreel cameraman who can fake the best pictures in the trade, and a round-the-world aviatrix who wishes to hunt for her lost brother in the Amazon, is a convenient frame on which to hang a series of thrilling climaxes. These thrills, which include shots of plane crack-ups, burning ships, and devil-dancing Dukas Indians, are enough to make a good picture...
...Obscenity, with which Nazis smear Jews and priests, is part of the curriculum. "The Stunner, which writes almost exclusively about sexual outrages, bedroom gossip and scandal, is read in the schools to children between 6 and 14." Copies hang on classroom walls. Result: "Pupils have become possessed by pathological sexual aberrations." Nazi children are taught that motherhood is a duty, even of unmarried women, and "the number of illegitimate pregnancies and births among the members of the State Youth is tremendous." There is even a standard form for applications by youthful fathers to be declared of age so they...
...also true that network contracts are signed on the basis of 13-week periods and continuing contracts hang over from prosperous times into depression months. Radio's big first quarter this year was swelled with much of this continuing business, and it contributed mightily to the handsome gross totals. But the rush to return to the air during the fourth quarter involves another factor. All parts of network-radio's day do not provide the same audience pulling power. To reach the largest and most varied audience, advertisers consider evening time the best, favor most strongly the hour...