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...usual, super-power German stations will continue their efforts to "jam" the Soviet super-power stations which regularly attempt to broadcast Marxian & Leninist ideas throughout Europe. For the special purpose of "jamming" Moscow's broadcasts, the Polish Government built some years ago what Poles call "the most powerful radio station in the world," made a few experimental broadcasts to the U. S. Last week Dr. Goebbels when asked about the ethics of his plan to radioize the U. S. cried: "Why not? The Poles have done...
...WESTWOOD MYSTERY-A. Fielding -Kinsey ($2). Suave Barrister Youdale doubts his acquitted clients, is smothered in bed. Scotland Yard's only clue : a smear of tangerine jam...
...bosom, stamping of the feet, and vigorous twirling of the moustache, which may be all right for the movies, but is strange to Harvard Square. In spite of that, however, Eisenstein's utilizing water scenes, like a mountain stream immediately after the breaking up of a log jam, the pounding of surf over a breakwater, or the moon rising through ships' rigging over the mist of motionless, oily seas, as symbolic of the feeling of the Russian peasantry, gives the picture an appeal not to be denied...
...scrip issue unless secured by bank paper, thus leaving the money-circulation at a near-zero rate. If they take this attitude, and it is all too likely that they will, business activity will falter, slow down, and come increasingly to a dead stop. The logs are in a jam on the river; tinkering with them has failed; dynamite is the only resort left to us. Dynamite and inflation are dangerous to handle, but there are times when an appalling necessity demands their...
According to its red lights the Moscow Court was merciful, since jam stealing is a counter-revolutionary and therefore deadly crime. Only the Warehouse Manager and his three chief accomplices were sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense," death by shooting, which was promptly meted out. Three other accomplices were sent to alternately sweat and freeze in remote forced labor camps. The remaining two jam thieves will spend three years comparatively snug in jail...