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...Luckless, M. Herriot resigned some years ago the soft, well-paid job of President (Speaker) of the Chamber of Deputies to become Prime Minister of France (TIME, Nov. 12, 1928) but his Cabinet lasted exactly two days...
...Russia obscurely as a "political boss" (General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party), has just thrown off this mask, assumed public office for the first time during his dictatorship, and proved who is absolute master of some 150,000,000 people by kicking into oblivion their nominal Prime Minister, luckless Comrade Alexey Rykov (TIME, Dec. 29). Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his mobilization of 6,401,210 unexpected Fascist votes, was a Man of the Year insofar as he personified a great cause of unrest in the western world. But Herr Hitler's flash...
Promulgated by the Cabinet in the form of a decree which luckless little King Vittorio Emanuele must sign, these wage cuts will, it was estimated last week, affect 60% of the wage-earning population of Italy, including street-sweepers, bus-drivers, streetcar-conductors, postmen & postmistresses, policemen, workers on the State Railways, employes of the State Tobacco, Salt, Telephone and Telegraph Monopolies, doctors & nurses in the State Monopolies, school teachers & professors, personnel of the Army, Navy, Air Force and even of the National (Fascist) Militia, the Dictator's personal last line of defense. Explaining himself to the people of Italy...
Smouldering from this technical defeat by a Prussian Socialist, President von Hindenburg was in ripe mood for drastic action when Chancellor Heinrich Briining of all Germany reported that in the Reich- stag the national Socialist party was continuing to hamstring his fiscal program. Already two luckless Finance Ministers had been forced to resign. The Socialists were blocking the Budget. What should two old soldiers do about these pesky Socialists?for Herr Briining too is an old soldier (Iron Cross...
...blame for the lost opportunity does not fall on either Garbo or O'Neill. In spite of a certain proportion of bunkum in its composition, Antia Christie is good stuff, vivid and well-constructed, with real people in it, and Garbo, as the Swedish girl who blames her luckless past on her father's neglect, is perfectly cast. One reason why this talkie is inferior to the wonderful silent picture made from the play six years ago is that the producers have apparently tried to turn it out too cheaply. Another reason is that it is stupidly directed. Every bone...