Word: merlis
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...round, red Julius Streicher, Governor of Franconia, who affects a riding crop, likes to be called the "Bloody Tsar of Nürnberg," and lards his anti-Jew harangues with so much sexual obscenity that they can be printed in full only in his own Der Strümer. Last week a naturalized U. S. citizen named Ludwig Hoffmann was in a Nürnberg jail for having had the audacity to describe Nürnberg's Boss Streicher as a Lump at a Nürnberg beer festival. Citizen Hoffmann, who lives in Chicago and went back...
...cinema stars, its cast includes three genuine Ziegfeld celebrities (Fanny Brice, Harriet Hoctor, Ray Bolger) and accurate counterfeits of two others: Buddy Doyle as Eddie Cantor and A. A. Trimble as the late Will Rogers. Trimble is a Cleveland map salesman who, often mistaken for Rogers, was last sum mer discovered by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer scouts. The picture will be shown in 20 U. S. cities as a "road show" attraction before being displayed at lower prices in ordinary cinemansions...
...determined advocacy of in land waterways is none too pleasing to U. S. railroads. Yet this does not worry J. & L. because it makes no heavy rails. However, 70% of its capacity is in other heavy steel products, such as pipes, mer chant bars and structural shapes. Though J. & L.'s plants are the envy of the industry, this preponderance of heavy products, which slumped worst in Depression, was what inspired last week's bond issues. A big modern strip-sheet mill will help balance its output...
...Communist fishermen on the quays of St. Malo, soon became superior of a monastery near Dinard. This tranquil office the robust, jolly Capuchin renounced for the immensely practical missionary work carried on in the French fishing fleets since 1895 by the Société des Oeuvres de Mer. Father Yvon's calling cards now read: "Address from April 20 to Sept. 15 on the Grand Banks and Greenland...
...fleet, with full consciousness that some of the boats may never return from the North Atlantic. Although the death toll diminishes steadily, last year four schooners were lost. Of the seven ships which have successively been sent out by the Société des Oeuvres de Mer, two have foundered...