Labor Camps and the Dignity of Work in Germany
Brooklyn College President Harry Gideonse argues that a semester of labor camp activity could enrich schooling by mixing youths from different backgrounds, akin to how labor camps historically tempered German youths. He contrasts Nazi camps with pre Nazi Germany and notes US draftees would not gain extra schooling, urging a balanced program linking physical hardening with disciplined study.
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Harry David Gideonse
Brooklyn College
New York
OF Labor
CCC
Gideonse
Republic
Germany
America
Col
W. H. Draper, Jr
U.S. General Staff
Draper
United States
Earl Crabb Rise From Missouri to Financial Leader
Earl Crabb grew up in Bedison Missouri and after moving to Cheyenne and Portland he devoted his spare time to self improvement. He became an ardent accountant, aided Henry Isaacs, helped with forged paper issues, and later led Investors Syndicate guiding 165 million dollars in assets and 400000 clients across 190 offices with 3500 employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Crabb
Missouri
Bess Alexander
Bedison
Earr
Earl
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Union Pacific Railroad
Portland
Oregon
Henry Isaacs
Union Pacific
C. H. Farrington
Western Bond and Mortgage Company
Isaacs
Farrington
Investors Syndicate
Minneapolis
Cie
On the Record Minority Report of Fantasia Experience
A critic delivers a harsh minority view of Disney and Stokowsky Fantasia including claims of hysteria and a near nervous breakdown. The writer calls the work a brutal assault on sensibility and likens the experience to Nazi abuse of power and cultural destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walt Disney
Leopold Stokowsky
Beethoven
Barh
Tehaikowsky
Stravinsky
Moussorgsky
Dubkas
Schubert
Geniu
Aseyexs Stokowsky
Disney
Deems Taylor
Lowell Thomas
Mr. Stokowsky
Fantasia review paints genius torn by Disney and Stokowsky
Dorothy Thompson critiques a Fantasia collaboration as a social symptom of decline, praising Beethoven while denouncing Disney and Stokowsky for a spectacle of brutal, antiseptic vision. She warns that the film desecrates art with Hollywood vanity and provocative imagery, ending with a sharp nod to Toscanini.
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Siper
Cne
Beethoven
Wagner
Stokowsky
Disney
Olympus
Napoleon
Mr. Stokowsky
Mr. Disney
Fisherman Saul and Mermaid Grant Christmas Wish
A fisherman Saul and his wife Inga lack a son. After freeing a mermaid from his nets on Christmas Eve she offers to grant his dearest wish. She reveals she is Neptune's daughter and sends them home to await their son.
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Inga
Saul
King Neptune
Mermaid
Mermaid courier to Santa Claus under Neptune’s gaze
A mermaid in a Christmas quest transforms into a sea gull to reach Santa at the North Pole. Neptune’s daughter worries at parting while a hundred year visitor prince waits on the sea bed. The tale blends sea kingdom, timely aid, and a holiday voyage.
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Santa Claus
Neptune
North Pole
Santa
King Neptune
British Spy Crisis Deepens as Sir John Wounded
In wartime England a fifth column threat grows as Mara’s treason and Captain Kenley’s murder unsettle intelligence chief Sir John Sanderson. Brinda Duncan aids the wounded leader at Mountwyn House while Lord Mountwyn and Dick organize a quiet manhunt inside the estate amid rumors of an unseen parachutist.
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England
Ajax
Mara
Hugh Kenley
John Sanderson
John
Brinda Duncan
Brinda
Kenley
Leutenant
Richard Malden
Intelligence Office
Rogues
Gladys
Lord
Lady Mountwyn
Sir John
Mountwyn
Prince Vaslav
Vaslav
Lord Mountwyn
Colonel Sanderson
Mountewyn
Anchorage
Britain
Sanderson
Sandy
TODAY'S PUZZLER CROSSWORD CLUES AND ANSWER GRID
A compact listing of horizontal and vertical crossword clues including names, places, and terms such as Scottish American philanthropist blood hoist venerated gymnastic apparatus emerald mountain stitched notched and many more, with an answer section and a prompt to solve the puzzle.
Making of an Anti American The Pacific War Warning
Upton Close argues Japan’s Yosuke Matsuoka shifts toward war, once Americanized, now driving anti US policy. The piece contrasts his paradoxical background with looming conflict and warns of intensified hostility between nations.
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Japan
Rotary International
United States
Yosuke Matsuoka
Matsuoka
Konoye
Rotary
Asia
Pacific
Canada
England
von Ribbentrop
Wrights Modern Church Plans Stir Kansas City Officials
Time magazine recounts Frank Lloyd Wright clashing with Kansas Citys building official over a proposed Community Church. Commissioner Lang rejects the design for not meeting the 1927 code, citing cantilever weight and floor set heating pipes, while Wright defends the project as the first fully functional church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Lloyd Wright
U. S
Kansas City
Public Works Department
Burris Jenkins
Wright
Frank Lloyd
Lang
Community Church
Johnson Wax
Racine
Wis
Wisconsin State Industrial Commission
War voices across lines warn and hope for democracy
A compilation of wartime quotes from figures including Pope Pius XII Rev Dilworth Lupton James Marshall Frita Kreisler Channing Pollock James S Kemper Lin Yutang Col Edgar S Gorrell and Dr John Haynes Holmes. They discuss realism defense democracy freedom speech and minority voting rights amid conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Marshall
Chicago Board of Education
John Haynes Holmes
Civil Liberties Union
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Texas
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Lion White
Mar
Snow White
Hollywood
Stravinseky
Cies
Mr. Disneys
Moussorghsky
Bach
Bill
Toscanini
Santa and the Giant Killer
the Fisherman and the Mermaid
By Sigrid Arne
Great Sea Castle of
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Neptune's Castle
Mata Hari's Daughter — — — By
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Leyla Georgie
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Sir Johns
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Bruica
Banda
Arinda
What
Upton Close
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Irwin Pfuhl
Jenkins
Time Magazine
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Rev
Dilworth Lupton
Cleveland
Frita Kreisler
Violin
Channing Pollock
James S. Kemper
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Marshal Petain
France
Lin Yutang
Chungking
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Air Transport Association
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