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...Dean Herbert Brucker was delegated to draw up a report on these solicited scripts and on transcriptions taken from the air. Although the N. A. B. has been guardedly quiet about the survey's progress, last week Motion Picture Daily's Jack Banner upset the applecart, published general conclusions, several details he said he drew from the report...
...Frankfurt, went to the U. S. firm. For at least the past 30 years he has run it in an arbitrary, single-minded fashion. He floated a vast amount of foreign loans, financed railroads, built power plants in Manila and a railroad in Bolivia. But the War upset the applecart of international finance. In 1922 Speyer's London firm dissolved; in 1934 the Lazard Speyer-Ellissen banks in Berlin and Frankfurt dissolved. Speyer & Co. also had its troubles in the U. S. Its share in foreign loans dwindled; its patronage of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway...
...Rules Committee and then through a recalcitrant House. Mary Norton did the best she could. This was to get a majority (218) of House members to sign a petition discharging the committee and bringing the bill to the floor last December, where Aunt Mary's colleagues upset the applecart by voting it down...
...been an equally outstanding success as Labor chairman. Undoubtedly, her efforts and those of her steering committee, headed by Massachusetts' Arthur Healey, last week helped get Wages-&-Hours its hearing on the floor, but the real reasons for the sensational transformation of Aunt Mary's capsized applecart into a genuine political bandwagon lay elsewhere. They were: 1) a letter to her from Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight in effect urging members to heed her petition, and 2) the Florida primary (see p. 77), which had the result of urging members to heed Franklin Roosevelt...
...POSSIBLY THE HITLER EXPERIMENT IN NAZIISM IS NOT QUITE WHAT IS MEANT BY DEMOCRACY, WE MUST CONFESS THAT WE CAN'T EXACTLY UNDERSTAND WHAT TROTSKY AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE DRIVING AT WHEN THEY ALLY THEMSELVES WITH MR. HITLER AND OTHERS IN A FRANTIC ATTEMPT TO UPSET THE RUSSIAN APPLECART AT ANY COST. OF COURSE IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE RUSSIAN TRIALS WERE QUITE AS PHONEY AS TIME WITH PERFECTLY UNDERSTANDABLE IF SOMEWHAT UNINFORMED PREJUDICE SUGGESTS, AND IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE THAT THE WORLD WOULD BE A MUCH BETTER PLACE IF STALIN AND THE ENTIRE SOVIET GOVERNMENT WERE MURDERED...