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...Northumberland); a Government bigwig, sent, as Lord Runciman was to Czecho-Slovakia in August 1938, to find that the disputed area wasn't worth squabbling over (Downing Street denied it); a personal emissary of Neville Chamberlain's sent behind his own Government's back to pave the way for a second Munich agreement; perhaps just a crank...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt today urged swift Congressional action to pave the way for barter of American farm surpluses for strategic war materials from Great Britain, Belgium and Holland--latest Administration move to aid Europe's Anti-Nazi-Fascist Blee...
...which for the last five weeks, courtesy of Kellogg's Corn Flakes, has been capping the great Sunday night radio vaudeville show. For its contracted year on the air, The Circle will cost more than $2,000,000, or about as much as it would cost (retail) to pave the way from Manhattan to Hollywood with boxes of Corn Flakes. Of this colossal pile, about $15,000 goes for its hour of radio time each week (10-11 EST) and some $25,000 a week for talent. Last week The Circle was having trouble with its expensive segments...
...overtly critical of the Prime Minister. Mr. Eden has been cautiously critical, on occasion abstaining rather than voting against Mr. Chamberlain. Lord Baldwin's opposition has been determined but never in the open. He and other anti-Chamberlain Conservatives realize that an open quarrel would split the party, pave the way for a return of the Laborites to power. They foresee the possibility of keeping Mr. Chamberlain in office but surrounding him with such an anti-Fascist Cabinet of "national unity" that he would no longer be free to appease dictators. Significantly, Chairman Sandys squelched some Hundred Thousand organizers...
Carefree (RKO Radio). London's Vauxhall Gardens in the 19th Century boasted a carver who could slice ham so thin that one of his hams, it was said, would pave the entire grounds. Waiters serving his translucent slices outdoors held them down with their fingertips to keep them from blowing away. Like all films in which Fred Astaire has figured prominently, Carefree is important for its melancholy songs and its brisk, high-spirited dancing. The farce between the dances, however, is sliced paper-thin...