Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fifteen thousand Nazis who have slaved for more than a year in the Saar were promised last week free cruises and other rest junkets by the Hitler movement called "Strength Through Joy." Over the air and in German papers appeared hospitable orders, "Invite a Saarlander to come and visit you! Give him free board and lodging. Make him happy...
Stormy Socialist Max Braun, the German who has risked his life a thousand times in the past few months to organize Saar Socialists, Catholics and Communists in opposition to Saar Nazis, declared in his final appeal to Saarlanders to vote for the status quo! "We are Germans and we want eventually to return to Germany. But we are determined that the Saar shall not go to Hitler! There is a difference between Germany and Hitler. The Nazis pass, Germany remains...
...Director Henry Hathaway, an obscure specialist in "Westerns" who had given up directing in disgust, was recalled to direct the picture. When Paramount finally got down to work, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer was made in 88 working days, mostly on location within 50 miles of Hollywood. Four thousand actors performed in it at one time or another. It cost about $1,300,000. Strangely enough, the time and money were well spent. In its finished form, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is precisely what it should be, a rich and engrossing melodrama, concerned with heroism, pigsticking, torture...
...Ruth Slenczynski will give 30 U. S. concerts this season. Manhattan's Carnegie Hall is so big that the only adult pianists who will play there this month are Josef Hofmann and Artur Schnabel. But Carnegie was not too big for Pianist Ruth Slenczynski last week. Three thousand New Yorkers were delighted to pay to hear a child so confident that she will attempt the weightiest music, so pert that she will suggest a different tempo to an experienced conductor like Bernardino Molinari...
...handsome Packard has made its appearance, and the price is under a thousand dollars. You will recognize the traditional Packard lines in all models, and find all the latest mechanical improvements...