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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Each U. S. Territory has a Delegate to Congress (or Resident Commissioner in Washington), who sits in the House of Representatives, has the right to speak, not vote, and acts in practice as a sort of official lobbyist...
...Direct Action." To the question-Just what does Henlein want?-the Sudeten Führer last week made answer. To G. Ward Price, friend of Adolf Hitler and correspondent for Viscount Rothermere's pro-German London Daily Mail, Henlein declared: "The northwest end of Czechoslovakia forms a sort of foreign appendix in the body of the German Reich. This appendix cannot be allowed to remain in its present state of high inflammation. . . . If such a dangerous condition is neglected, the inflamed appendix would burst one day and instantly infect all Europe with political peritonitis...
...commission recommended more jobs, more education and guidance, more fun for Youth. Its warning: ''Unpleasant stories are told of operators of coal properties who . . . mine only the richer veins and leave the smaller ones to cave in. This coal, it is said, is forever lost. Somehow this sort of thing reminds us that youth, too, never comes again...
Columbia Pictures runs a gamut of its own, from the frankest sort of penny-thriller melodrama to the maturest. best-ordered and funniest comedy in cinema. For Columbia's good standing with the carriage trade, the men chiefly responsible are the team of Director Frank Capra and Writer Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon). Last fiscal year (June 26) unpretentious Columbia cleared a profit of $1,317,771. Of next season's schedule of 40 films, high spot will probably be Director Capra's production of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize...
Last week U. S. readers had a chance to see what sort of material offends London journalists when To beg I am ashamed was brought out with no pre-publication onslaughts. Their main reaction was likely to be one of surprise that so conventional a story could cause so much fuss. The work of a 26-year-old prostitute who writes under a pseudonym, it is a record of a drab and distressing life, makes prostitution attractive to nobody. Its author seems intelligent, unsentimental but strangely apathetic, gives the impression that she could have escaped her environment but stayed...