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...this time the luckless Governor found himself embroiled in a front-page argument with Madam Secretary Frances Perkins. He claimed that the Secretary of Labor had urged him to "kidnap" the recalcitrant steelmasters, sit them down with John Lewis, "keep them there until they signed an agreement...
...last French election gave the Popular Front a "safe majority" in the Chamber composed of Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists. These last have no Cabinet seats. At the emergency session it was the Radical Socialists and Socialists who fell to quarreling, with luckless Premier Blum fluttering between them in his accustomed role as the dove of Popular Front peace. After almost two hours' wrangle it was decided to ask Parliament to grant the Cabinet dictatorial powers over French economy and finance for six weeks. Once these had been voted, the Cabinet could then in a more tranquil atmosphere decide...
...Leave no brief cases around, no matter how innocent their contents. Villainous spies frequently slip incriminating documents into them, then threaten to peach unless the luckless Russian joins the organization...
While SEC was giving luckless U. S. investors a lesson in Nazi finance, it also called their attention to the anomalous position of the big U. S. banks which are involuntary German creditors by virtue of the famed "standstill agreements," the seventh of which was concluded last month. Under these agreements German credits extended by U. S. banks and frozen since 1931 have been cut in six years from $600,000,000 to $114,000,000. Interest has been paid regularly at rates varying from 2% to 4¼%. Moreover, these banks hold a considerable amount of Reich Treasury notes...
...submarines, songs and choruses, long-limbed Eleanor Powell trips through one of the best musical comedies of the winter, "Born to Dance". As Nora Paige, the New Hampshire country girl, she finally gets a lead in a New York musical show. James Stewart who plays opposite her as the luckless Naval officer is duped by a rival actress in a publicity stunt. Their alternate weals and woes give them ample opportunity to sing such tantalizing Cole Porter hits as "Easy to Love," "I've Got You Under My Skin"' and at least six others. Eleanor Powell sings, taps, and whirls...