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...industry finds hardest to assimilate. Consequently, if Make Way for Tomorrow makes a fortune for its producers, Hollywood can be expected to exhibit amazement. No amazement is in order. Taking a subject about which everyone has speculated—the financial insecurity of old age—the picture examines the case of Barkley Cooper (Victor Moore) and his wife Lucy (Beulah Bondi). Adapted by Vina Delmar from Josephine Lawrence's novel, directed by Leo McCarey (Ruggles of Red Gap), the story is presented with rare cinematic honesty. It is acted by Victor Moore, in his first serious cinema role, and seasoned Beulah...
...such array of talent or of enthusiasm could the President muster on his side. The best he had were Hugo LaFayette Black, Alben Barkley, Sherman Minton, Henry Ashurst, Robert La Follette. From these the level of enthusiasm and ability fell rapidly away. His reliable wheel horses Robinson, Harrison, Byrnes and others were still true, but their attitude indicated that at heart they were no more than lukewarm. Not yet forgotten was the promise of the Democratic platform, made last summer, that if the aims of the New Deal could not be accomplished within the Constitution an amendment would be proposed...
...political backing was indicated by the guests honoring him at a private dinner in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel last week. With Senator Pat Harrison as honorary chairman and Senator James F. Byrnes as toastmaster, the list included Postmaster General Farley, Presidential Secretaries McIntyre and Early, Senators Barkley, Copeland, Davis, Duffy, McAdoo, Tycoons Walter P. Chrysler and Gerard Swope...
...Sunday, Senator Alben Barkley with his keynote speech and Senator Joseph T. Robinson with his speech as permanent chairman of the Democratic convention, came to lay their themes on the lap of their chief for editing and correction...
...Democrats this year, as in 1932, selected as their keynoter at the national convention (1 Carter Glass, 2 Alben William Barkley, 3 Bennett Champ Clark, 4 Maury Maverick, 5 Joseph T. Robinson...