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...current struggle between the officers of justice and the organized forces of crime, the local police departments, ham-strung by the venality of city bosses and the inferior talents of their men, are unable to function with the essential efficiency and coordination. Offering a meagre salary and little hope of advancement without political influence, the police forces are compelled to recruit from the lower strata of society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE AND CRIME | 11/14/1934 | See Source »

...unjust punishment on his favorite dancing girl (Anna May Wong). Interspersed with songs, dances, oriental feasts and samples of British comic opera jocosity, it requires almost two hours for the thieves to reach their bath of boiling oil. U. S. cinemaddicts may find the photography in Chu Chin Chow inferior to most recent Hollywood musicomedies, its narrative method stodgy, but are likely to approve the decor, Frederic Norton's music, the acting of the only performer in the cast whose name is familiar to them. Anna May Wong wriggles her eyebrows ably when placed on the slave auction-block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 1, 1934 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...Decline & Fall) which scandalized some readers, tickled many more. In 1930 came Vile Bodies, more of the same, which seemed to establish its author as one of the really funny satirists of the day. But his next, Black Mischief, sandwiched in between some disappointingly pedantic travel books, had an inferior taste, a gritty quality that set some teeth on edge. Last week readers of his latest novel were loudly disagreeing with each other about whether this new departure was or was not in a right direction. Critics had to scratch their heads to classify A Handful of Dust. In essence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Melofarce | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...address, Der Reichsführer promised: "No one will live in Germany who views the work of his hands as inferior to other work! We do not wish to be theoretical Socialists. In the future all young Germany will pass through your labor corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Holy Roman Adolf | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

...Navy airplanes are concerned. . . . However, the fact is clear that . . . our Army combat aviation appears to have been allowed to fall below other leading aviation powers of the world in strength. . . . The fear that has been industriously cultivated in this country by various zealots that American aviation ... is inferior to that of the rest of the world as a whole is unfounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Baker's Dozen | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

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