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...Nazi Germany, God's Word has been tampered with by Protestant scholars on a scale unequaled since the heresies of early Christianity. This fact was documented in a threepenny pamphlet, The Germanisation of the New Testament, issued in England by the Friends of Europe, and circulated in the U. S. last week. In a foreword, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, of Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, estimated that one-tenth of Germany's Protestant pastors have defied the predominantly anti-Christian Nazi State and suffered the consequences. About two-thirds are lying low, hoping the storm will blow...
Cautioning trustbusters that mere bigness did not mean badness, he argued that small business despite certain "nostalgic reminiscences" was not necessarily competitive or humane. "The village grocery store, the village blacksmith, the village grist mill, were all monopolies. . . . Such competition as there has been, curiously enough, came from large-scale enterprise; mail-order houses, and later the chain stores...
...same time, perhaps with a professor's love for upsetting convictions, B.A., M.A., and LL.B. Berle challenged the prevailing belief in the efficiency of large-scale production: "It is familiarly insisted that the old-fashioned farm was an inefficient unit. Yet if, besides the assumed cost of production, there were taken into account the continuity of employment, the ability to use energies of adolescents and of old people, the ability to take care of sickness and give some scope for individual creation and the like, it might prove that ... the old-fashioned farm was one of the most effective...
Since there had been no army mobilization on this scale in Germany since 1914, the reactions of the German people last week were marked nervousness and alarm -reactions noted and factually cabled by the leading correspondents in Germany, quite unhindered. It was pikestaff plain that Adolf Hitler wanted all Europe to hear about and be frightened by his mobilization. Der Führer, who thus far has had only to rattle the German sword to get what he wanted piecemeal, was rattling his loudest for the benefit of Lord Runciman in Prague...
...late Irving Thalberg's last production schedule, with his wife in the title role. The French Revolution, MGM, Shearer & Power, Director W. S. Van Dyke II and $2,500,000 are probably an unbeatable combination in any language. Even for Hollywood's most extravagant moments, the scale on which this picture was produced remains gargantuan. It is equipped with 5,500 extras and 98 grand-scale sets. It runs for two hours and 35 minutes. It also runs a gamut from babies to beheadings. The cast-particularly Miss Shearer and 28-year-old Robert Morley, whom Producer Hunt...