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Minister-President Hermann Wilhelm Goring cocked his large snook last month in Berlin to roar: "Our colonies have been stolen from us! ... Britain has one-third of the world as her colonies. . . . Also our gold has been stolen from...
Minister for Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels next cocked his small snook to call the critical rejoinders of some British editors to General Goring "impudent and insulting." Following these leads from Goring and Goebbels, the Nazi Press almost unanimously cocked snooks at Britain last week, a surprising example being that set by the usually polite financial organ Berliner Börsen-Zeitung, which suddenly declared: "The British embezzled what Germany paid in Reparations...
...this year what Prohibition took away it has partly given back. Three weeks before beer became legal Owens-Illinois' orders already amounted to 55,000,000 bottles. Last week Owens-Illinois had its 20 plants working at full capacity. What is more. Mr. Levis could cock a snook at technocrats: although with present machinery the output per man per day in his factories is at least 50% greater than it was 13 years ago there were last week more men on Owens-Illinois' payroll than at any time during the booming 1920's. Not content with what...
...inmates. He was appalled last spring (TIME, March 9) when National Diversified Co., which financed two of his pictures, was shown to have obtained its funds from fraudulent stock transactions, chiefly at the expense of credulous Catholics. Nicknamed "Dinty," Funnyman Dowling calls his 4-ft.-10-in. wife "Peanut," "Snook," "Brat," considers her "a great artist." She is the only woman whose name has appeared in lights above that of Ziegfeld Follies: Their income, from stage, screen and radio enterprises, is augmented by Funnyman Dowling's holdings in a Pasadena, Calif. sausage factory...
...prison responsibilities. Though wardens' reports had reiterated figures on overcrowding, the only Federal prison reform of recent years was when Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, then Assistant Attorney-General, sent fake convicts to Atlanta and Leavenworth to snoop. She demanded the resignation of Atlanta's Warden John W. Snook "because of utter want of administrative ability" (TIME, March 25). Out went Snook, in came A. C. Aderholdt, who first worked for Atlanta prison as a construction gang foreman in 1906, later as prison guard, as record clerk. Now, as warden, he is softspoken, reticent, diligently eludes publicity. But Mrs. Willebrandt, busily...