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Meanwhile Adolf Hitler was announced to have reduced Germany's unemployed from 6,013,000 when he became Chancellor to 1,754,000 last week. In this process, according to Government statistics, wages and jobs have been spread thinner & thinner, per capita hours of work and per capita wages falling. Rents and food prices have risen, with a consequent decline in the German standard of living...
...peaceful trades, soaring to 184% of 1928 activity in the building sector. Unemployment, which stood at 1,160,000 in January 1934, was down to 750,000 last week, due partly to army recruiting, partly to the boomlet's creation of more work and partly to spreading it thinner by introduction of the 40-hour week last October. The general price level, which II Duce has tried to force down (TIME, May 30, 1927 et seq.) has risen some 15%. Wages, more obedient to dictation, are down...
Down Flandin. When Deputies straggled back to their desks, they found a flunkey struggling up to the tribune with a heavy pedestal, its top padded with red plush. A few minutes later Pierre Etienne Flandin walked slowly into the room, his face pale, his huge frame much thinner than before his automobile accident last month. His broken left arm in a plaster cast was supported by a sort of wicker basket which, when he reached the rostrum, he rested on the plush pedestal. The entire Chamber, including the Communist Deputies, rose and cheered not Flandin the Premier but Flandin...
...with her to the U. S., packs her bags and hopes to sell a penny can-opener of his own invention. Lehmann's ways are unpretentious. She keeps no maid, answers her own telephone, does her own mending. Five years ago she was definitely large. Now 20 Ib. thinner, she watches her diet, never orders dessert although she nibbles a bit at the apple pie which Herr Krause invariably chooses...
...star. We Live Again exhibits her where she belongs, in Russia, and should cause her to be classed with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich as an importation who deserves all the attention she can get. She speaks better English than she did in Nona, looks a little thinner, acts as well. Good shot: Katusha drinking vodka in jail...