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...dead of night, Czech soldiers at the disposal of the Carpatho-Ukraine Government, aided by armed members of the SIC, a militant political organization under German auspices, advanced on the border town of Munkacs, awarded to Hungary in the post-Munich territorial revision. Hungarian frontier police and troops met them. A battle began in which the Czech forces used tanks, armored cars and trench mortars...
...became a U. S. citizen in 1929. We weathered even the worst (sic) years of the Depression in good shape. I earned good wages as an inspector of automobile parts and materials. Towards the end of last year, however, the bludgeonings of circumstances bruised us badly. My present boss (I am still on a payless payroll), because of business conditions, has been able to provide me with only two weeks' employment during the past twelvemonth...
...fine arts courses, which, after all, whether trite or significant, do at least say and mean something. How intriguing, how illuminating, how it enhances one's appreciation to learn that Degas' dancing girls were "almost vicious in their vices," and "Picasso's use of line has form and solidarity (sic!) which can hardly be excelled and his handling of many different bodily postures is expert in the highest degree!" What imbecile would be willing to confess to writing such tripe. Yours truly, Albert K. Cohen...
...students. Yet when the University attempts to explain away the situation, it invariably points to a number of men, not admitted, but "ineligible." How can a University boasting a liberal point of view condone a system of education which segregates the poorer students, so that they may steep together (sic) in their intellectual inertia? Is not the House just the place where they might find the stimulation they need through contact with students of other intellectual levels...
Only in the purely fictional aspects of the story was Sclznick-International guided by fancy: after 25,000 screen tests(sic) had been viewed, the freckled face of Tommy Kelly of the Bronx was selected as that bearing closest resemblance to the public's conception of Mr. Clemens' hero. Although such old-timers as Walter Brennan and May Robson lend adult support, all of the minors are new to the camera and act with that unaffected naturalness that Norman Taurog's directing brings out. The picture is in Technicolor...