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...Ryan] obviously was unaccustomed to dealing with the workings of a shrewd and cunning European mind and doubtless was attracted by the glamor of foreign titles and his contact with Continental nobility. In permitting himself to be deceived by the sham of class or caste based upon the accident of birth, [he] lost sight of the fact that his own country is firmly grounded in principles opposed to divine rights of titled personages...
...sober citizen has wondered how long his thoroughly autocratic Church would permit the radio priest to continue stirring up unchurchly controversy. Their wonder grew as Boston's outspoken old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell repeatedly flayed Father Coughlin for his "demagogic talk," "hysterical harangues," "humbugging," "pure sham'' and Father Coughlin cracked back that for 40 years the Cardinal had been notorious for his silence on social justice...
...Society Doctor" idealizes the American Medical Man in reasonable proportions. Chester Morris, Virginia Bruce, and Robert Taylor are all good. All the sham and hypocrisy of society doctoring is roundly denounced by Young Surgeon Morris who keeps up with his profession to the extent of knowing all about the brand new Steiglitz Abdominal Technique. The plot is cleverer than the average, and is sufficient to hold up an overemphasized character. The scenes all take place within the hospital, and are of a much wider range than one would imagine. There are shysters, big shot gangsters, unfortunate policemen, handsome doctors, ugly...
...beauteous wife is Maureen, eldest daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry, social backers and promoters of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. To a Laborite the mere fact that aristocratic Major Stanley, a successful ex-stockbroker, was made Minister of Labor last year brands National Government a sham. To Conservatives nothing seems more right and proper. They assume that Oliver Stanley is briskly, but not too briskly, on his way to becoming Prime Minister.* Last week he stumbled, and swank Mayfair was pained. In Sheffield fierce riots broke out, all because the new Minister of Labor was not quite...
Growled Boston's William Cardinal O'Connell: "People will sit for hours listening to radio talk that is nothing but sham, pure and simple sham. . . . Do not put too much faith in those who are humbugging the world...