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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...underlings in 26 states, giving orders to destroy copies of telegrams to Congress on which A. G. E. had spent $100,000): "I don't know from which [A. G. E.] company the money came. There are lots of companies in A. G. E. I could not begin to count them. Probably it came from F. E. Martin, head of the treasury department." "Treasury department of what company?" "I don't know." Senator Schwellenbach: "Do you consider a company justified in spending $700,000* for lobbying when it can't pay dividends?" Beach: "Yes." Senator Gibson...
...American people and the Government believe in freedom of religious worship, not only in the United States but also in all other nations." ¶ Assembling Secretaries Morgenthau and Perkins, Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins and Frank C. Walker, the President admonished them that it was none too early to begin figuring out how many billions would be needed for relief in 1937 and how many billions the Treasury could afford to offer...
...Royal Opera Ballet School. The "elevation" (leaps and jumps) at which he is expert today he learned in the rigorous oldtime manner, practicing in heavy harness which when it was removed made him feel more airy. In 1924 Christ Panduoro lost his money, returned to San Francisco to begin again in the embroidery business. Paul Haakon studied with Theodore Kosloff, made his debut in a San Francisco vaudeville house. In 1927 in Manhattan he danced as a faun in Cleopatra, managed to get in Pavlova's troupe a few months before she died...
...film as the corpse to a murder mystery, announces a hypothesis that life may be indefinitely prolonged in a human being by broiling him over a phenomenally hot flame. With this point firmly in mind, the scientist's nephew Leo Vincey (Randolph Scott) and his associate (Nigel Bruce) begin paddling off to the Siberian wilds where a family legend indicates that an ancestor named John Vincey encountered such a flame 500 years before. Thereupon She ceases to be concerned with test tubes and laboratory riddles, becomes an honest and ingratiating example of the pipe-dream cinema, full of glaciers...
...still rising (TIME, March 13). Commenting on this simplified form, Accounting Review declared: "The SEC has in one month set effective and, on the whole, reasonable standards for the [accounting] profession which years of futile committee work within professional societies have not been able to produce or even begin to produce...