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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restraining force. It is in her own interest to do so, for any major war on the continent will surely involve her. President Roosevelt is moving in the direction of cooperation by drawing public opinion out of its traditional isolation, by plugging for repeal of the atrociously misnamed "Peace Act" of 1937, and, yesterday, by throwing the weight of the United States behind Britain and France even more emphatically than he did by the subsequently retracted "frontier statement." Those who hope for an eventual solution of European problems without another great war will heartily applaud his action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

...freshness and vitality of her performance are qualified only by the occasional drawbacks of the play itself. Certain lines--especially in the first act--come too fast for even the most hardened crack cracker; the story, containing one case of mixed identity, virulent satirizing of Henry Luce and the "Fortune" outfit, and a complex love relation, verges on the obscure. But individual scenes, such as Miss Hepburn's "interview" of "Destiny's" reporters in the first act and the love scene between Van Heflen and Miss Hepburn in the second, show real brilliance, and give to the play an underlying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

...George Cohan variety has always been a box-office standby, but the cinema's new patriotism goes deeper into the last refuge. It stems from: i) a sudden awareness that in failing to capitalize the forces which produced the New Deal, John L. Lewis and the Wagner Act, the cinema has missed a golden opportunity; and 2) the general eagerness of producers to forestall a wave of U. S. antiSemitism, which they greatly dread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Westerns | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...designated watchdog of the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts for 24 years, FTC has had more experience coping with monopoly than any other Government agency, seldom lets a week go by without cracking down on at least one corporate offender. Last week, prefacing a review of FTC's dealings with steel, milk, artichokes, cheese, liquor, fish, poultry, Mr. Ballinger stuck pretty much to generalities. His main point turned out to be the familiar FTC complaint that it has been unable to limit the growth of monopoly because the Clayton act forbids only corporate combinations through stock purchase, does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Monopolion | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...first offered at public auction in 1892. Although potentially it was probably the most lucrative franchise ever offered, it drew a lone bid of $1,000, which was promptly rejected. The city thereupon decided to build the subway itself and August Belmont, then a financial outsider, came forward to act as contractor. When the line was finished in 1904, his Interborough Rapid Transit Co. secured a lease to operate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Transit Trouble | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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