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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrestling milk-cans on cold Minnesota mornings while his college classmates slept snugly, "Fierce" Butler thrust his way painfully on & up, became by the century's turn a crack railroad lawyer in the days when railroads were among the biggest U. S. corporations. To Wall Street, to conservatives, to Catholics he was a big name in 1922, when President Harding appointed him to the highest Court...
They agreed on a general program, and on specific features of it, so significant that they made the week's biggest war news. After they were through talking, the Allied Supreme War Council, headed by each country's chief of State and chief of war, held a meeting to ratify the Simon-Reynaud agreements. Within three months, warring Britain and France had reached greater financial and trade solidarity than they reached in three years last time. * Gone was any German hope of splitting the Allies asunder...
...almost anywhere they can find one. They are still sorry that Spain's Dictator Franco turned down their offer to bank him last spring. After Adolf Hitler came to power, Amsterdam became a concentration camp for refugee money. The city's grain market is one of the biggest in Europe; its stock-market is a sensitive, if not completely reliable, seismograph of world conditions...
Some considerable war purchases in the U. S. have been made and kept dark because of the sellers' craving anonymity; most big deals rumored have yet to be signed & sealed. Biggest is the French purchase of South American copper; 25,000 tons a month for six months. If it goes through, the deal will amount to $42,000,000, enrich U. S. coppermen with South American mines. The chief war orders whose existence could be confirmed last week were...
First Love (Universal). Sixteen-year-old Deanna Durbin, Universal's sweetish nightingale, also happens to be its biggest box-office asset. Last week her studio faced a nerve-cracking crisis-Deanna Durbin, having unmistakably outgrown short skirts, must be shown to her public as a young lady receiving her first kiss. Could Songster Durbin hold her fans, who like to think of her as a wide-eyed child with a full-bosomed soprano, after that historic peck? For the thrilling ordeal Universal chose an ingratiating fairy tale about a singing orphan who loses her slipper, wins her prince...