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Unmarried No. 1 Nazi Hitler and childless No. 2 Nazi Göring, both tireless in exhorting the German people to breed children, were again set an example last week by the No. 3 Nazi, waspish little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. When she married Dr. Goebbels in December 1931, Mrs. Magda Quandt already had a son. In the ensuing five years Dr. & Mrs. Goebbels have had a son and three daughters, the latest last week. While his wife was in labor with his fourth child, Der Angrip, personal newsorgan of Reichspropagandaminister Goebbels, came out last week with a powerful series...
...Malley and his men had many a brush with the police, the Black & Tans, the British soldiers, waged a waspish war attacking isolated barracks and police stations, barricading roads, ambushing convoys. He was wounded half a dozen times. One unlucky morning he was captured. Put through a grisly third-degree, beaten up, constantly threatened with death, he was finally clapped into Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin's strongest. Few months later, before his identity had been discovered, he and a few bold comrades escaped. A seasoned veteran now at 24, O Malley was sent back to his guerrilla battlefield, this time...
Scrooge is a British version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, released for the U. S. Christmas trade by Paramount. A properly mean, frowzy, waspish Scrooge (Sir Seymour Hicks), a fine, spindly-legged Bob Cratchit (Donald Calthrop), a frail, treble-voiced Tiny Tim, and a number of thoroughly capable minor actors move through snowy London streets and warm Early Victorian interiors. Projected with tenderness but without sentimentality are the sequences showing the rousing Christmas of the Cratchit family. Good shot: Cockney harridans cackling over the belongings of the dead Scrooge in the Christmas-yet-to-come...
...highest German ace in the War. He brought down 62 Allied planes, earned the nickname "Wasp" for his habit of attacking one plane in a squadron, escaping before the others could reach him. Now called "Flea" for his energetic hopping about Europe, baldish. blue-eyed Herr Udet resumed his waspish characteristics on the first day of the National Air Races at Cleveland last week...
Misery v. Taxes. When waspish little Senator Caraway of Arkansas read the Hoover statement to the Senate, the floodgates of Democratic abuse were opened. The most fair, the most logical attack was upon the President's $4,500,000,000 figure which was arrived at by the threadbare device of piling one duplicate bill upon another, of including all grotesque measures which die the moment they are introduced. Another point raised against the White House calculation was that in most of the "relief" bills the U. S. was giving away nothing but simply advancing programs and policies theoretically approved...