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...Joseph Stalin, always lavish with Russia's millions in buying tractors, remains a tightwad as to railways, choosing to have hapless Soviet railwaymen shot for "sabotage" rather than buy them good modern rolling stock and signals, remains perhaps the Kremlin's major mystery. Last week Soviet trains were still being hauled by Tsarist locomotives, and after more than three full years of shooting Soviet railwaymen, Dictator Stalin's zealous Comrade Andrey Andreyev had had enough of being Commissar of Railways...
...hapless Herbert Clark Hoover of Ottawa is Richard Bedford Bennett, a good man, rich, pious, well-meaning, conservative and Premier. Before next autumn at the latest he must fight a Canadian election, and everyone has been saying he must lose for the same reason that Mr. Hoover inevitably lost: the people are sore. Last week Mr. Bennett decided that he would not accept defeat without trying the last refuge of statesmanship, demagoguery. Overnight the leader of Canada's Conservative Party turned such a complete somersault that the Conservative Montreal Gazette said he had "done violence to every Conservative principle...
...Reclaimed His Head (Universal). Audiences who remember Claude Rains in The Invisible Man may find the title of this picture misleading. The Man Who Reclaimed His Head is not a sequel to The Invisible Man but a gloomy war film, in which Rains impersonates a hapless journalist named Paul Verin, who is harassed by shyness, poverty and the irony of fate. The title is a pretentious figure of speech. Properly speaking, Verin reclaims not his head but his brain. He is hired to write pacifist articles which make his employer famed. When the employer, after having betrayed Verin by entering...
...Doorway" was the unlucky picture and Charles Sheeler, a modern painter who specializes in photographic effects in his works, was the hapless artist who deserved a much better fate than to become a bone of contention...
...Primary grade pupils in Tabasco were forced to strip naked, boys and girls, as part of the sex education instruction. . . . Not only this, but both in Tabasco and Mexico City groups of primary pupils were taken to maternity wards by their teachers to watch actual parturition. Some of these hapless children went stark mad as a result of their horrible experience...