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...furniture, other trivia connected with its primary purpose of setting up minimum prices for soft coal. Franklin Roosevelt refused to accept it. Last week, however, when Chairman Hosford once more submitted his resignation, Franklin Roosevelt did accept it. The reason was clear-the Coal Commission has made an unholy botch...
...impeccable taste as to print photographs of a Caesarean section. The Times is also stiffly proud of its reputation for impeccable typography. Last week its readers discovered which reputation the Times prizes more highly. On Page 1 of the Times's Sunday Book Review section appeared a typographical botch which any country editor would be ashamed to permit in his paper-a line which showed only as a faint, undecipherable blur. The type had obviously been scraped off. Readers' puzzlement grew to shock when, on Page 14 of the same section, they found a two-column, five-inch...
...Farewell to Arms (Paramount) will disappoint only those pessimists who, hearing about the difficulties that cropped up during the adaptation of Author Hemingway's sad novel and remembering that it made a wretched play, expected it to be a classic botch. But the picture emerges as a compelling and beautifully imagined piece of work, brilliantly directed by Frank Borzage, acted to perfection by Gary Cooper - whose numb mannerisms are pre cisely appropriate to his role - and by Helen Hayes, whose performance is certainly as good as her work in The Sin of Madelon Claudet which the cinema Academy last...
...vice president of Stabilization Corp. The customary excuse was used: "The pressure of other affairs which will require his undivided attention." But there were few wheat men in Chicago who did not believe that Mr. Kellogg, despite his three-year contract, had been eased out because of the botch he had made of U. S. wheat trading, the ill will he had engendered among growers and dealers alike...
...fellow Ohioan, Senator Willis. Never did a big butter-&-milk man undertake a braver job than attacking a once honored chief for the sake of a boss to whom he was now obligated. And never did a big butter-&-milk man have his job turn out a more gruesome botch than did "widely known" Mr. Brand...