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Mussolini was about to tread German soil for the first time in his official life.* It was his first trip outside Italy or her possessions since he went to Switzerland to sign the Locarno Pact (TIME...
...less precarious times, the role she is given in That Certain Woman might conceivably have evoked renewed protest from her, not that it lacks scope for her remarkable dramatic range, but because it heaps tragedy upon her with Sophoclean relentlessness, and because its wearying, buskined tread cannot pretend to vie with her more smartly-stepping 1937 successes, Marked Woman and Kid Galahad...
...Brother James Metcalfe and Mueller, who had also done extensive prowling among German-Americans. Together with Managing Editor Ruppel they took over the Times's first nine pages to reveal "Secrets of Nazi Army in U. S. A.-by Times men who joined it!" Sample secret: "The regimented tread of marching men under the flaming Nazi swastika resounds from coast to coast in the United States today. In uniforms strangely suggestive of those worn by Adolf Hitler's Nazi storm troops, a relatively small [20,000] but rapidly growing army is preparing for the American counterpart...
While 30 marchers picketed the austere portals of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce with placards reading DON'T TREAD ON ME. slight, earnest Leader Lasser conferred with Harry Hopkins to ask whether the WPA rolls, having been cut from 2.085,000 to 1,527,000 since April, would be cut any more. Mr. Hopkins retorted that he was obliged to spread WPA funds evenly over the fiscal year, could make no promises. He asked, however, whether Leader Lasser's followers were not getting to think of their WPA jobs as a "career." Mr. Hopkins thought that...
With a bill to be titled "The Peace Act of 1937" the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last Saturday clearly indicated that the United States will no longer float about in a non-existent sea of neutrality, cringing at every warlike move, and yapping whenever its long commercial toes are tread upon. The new neutrality proposal is so positive and direct in its method that it practically bares its fangs and curls its lips to maintain peace in face of a foreign war, In the plain words of its author, Senator Pittman, the bill does "not attempt to construe, determine...