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...want to knit for soldiers? Stop it; knit only if the Red Cross says so; wool yarn is precious...
...Paramount pressagents put out the story that one of their up-&-coming stock girls, Manhattan Model Blanche Grady, had formed a club: The Knit Wits...
Biggest of Joseph Goebbels' seven departments is Counter-Action, where "the separate threats of propaganda and espionage are knit together." By 1937 it controlled some 330 German-language newspapers in non-German countries; good reporters can also be good spies. The Department also made notable use of movie companies: one filmed Robinson Crusoe (never released) on a strategic island off South America; another made a huge documentary (never released) of Poland, in 1938. Artists were useful, too, from a great Wagnerian soprano down to second-grade cabaret girls. And servant girls-between 1933 and 1939 some...
...film as any which local screens have shown in recent years. Basing his story on the struggles of the heroic Russian cavalry against the invading Teutonic knights of the 13th century, Eisenstein has created a picture which is more enthusiastic than sound, more spectacular than it is well-knit...
...Conservatives could not have picked a more conservative leader. Nor could they have chosen one more heartily against Mackenzie King. To keep the support of the potent, close-knit French political bloc in Quebec and Ontario, Mackenzie King has soft-pedaled the question of conscription for overseas service, which in the last months has been brought up with increasing vigor by the all-out-for-Britain citizens of the prairie Provinces and the West. Canadian businessmen oppose the excess-profit taxes, the regulations, the price ceilings that the wartime Government has set. And Canadian labor resents wage ceilings quite...