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...adapt itself as a critical anti-administration party. This function, intelligently performed, is as essential to the efficient operation of our two-party democracy as able leadership by the group in power. Unless it can show its usefulness, which entails a complete reorganization, the Republican Party is doomed to oblivion...
...lugubrious. In its very quintessence, it is a preposterous species of excoriating emasculation. Horn in commiserative stagnation, bred in plethoric delinquency, luxuriating in obfuscated excruciation, irretrievably floundering in the insidious infiltration of retributive impoverishment and unavoidable degeneration. It at last consummates its lamentable termination in unfathomable and immutable oblivion...
...staple of the industry from 1912 until 1928 when sound supplemented sight, "Westerns" have lately been relegated to the oblivion of double-feature bills, week-end matinees for children. On the chance that Legion of Decency approval will give them a new impetus, RKO took special pains with this one. Its story is by Zane Grey. Its cast includes Richard Dix, Martha Sleeper, Louise Beavers and an imitator of Stepin Fetchit who uses a preposterous pseudonym, "Sleep...
...free style). He was on the Olympic team in 1932. In 1933, he won the 500-yd. national indoor free style championship against Seattle's famed Jack Medica. At the outdoor meet that summer, he scored 16 points singlehanded. After that he deserted Coach Forsyth, sank into oblivion. He joined Coach Forsyth again this winter, trained faithfully for last week's meet. Last week, after the Miami Biltmore meet, he flew to Nassau for the British Colonial meet, made news by breaking no records...
...gargantuan defense budget in Japanese peacetime history (TIME, Dec. 3). Undoubtedly with grave misgivings, Emperor Hirohito, the bespectacled Son of Heaven, signed his Privy Council's awful decision last week as the world's only other Emperor of consequence was polishing the London Naval parley off into oblivion. The delegates did their own adjourning, but for Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, for Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira and for U. S. Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis the big moments last week were when each was called separately to Buckingham Palace. Each was questioned closely by George V, in his youth...