Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dutch-blooded President Franklin Delano Roosevelt this week started U. S. Minister to Haiti George Anderson Gordon on a 5,500-mile sea journey from sunny squalor to scrubbed prosperity, from slender mulattoes to broad-beamed Nordics, from Haiti to The Hague, where he will be accredited to regally pink-&-white Queen Wilhelmina instead of to duskily diffident Haitian President Stenio Vincent. Saying an official goodby to Port-au-Prince meant having sent down from Manhattan presents for pickaninnies in the hospital patronized by Mrs. Gordon and choice viands including meat for the banquet Minister Gordon served to mulatto dignitaries...
...ingredients for large-scale musical melodrama, High, Wide and Handsome omits none, from folk dancing to the scene in which Sally, temporarily estranged from her husband, sings in a tent show. Produced by Arthur Hornblow in the magniloquent tradition of screen plays like Showboat and San Francisco, directed with broad strokes by Rouben Mamoulian, it is shrewd, symphonic, sentimental mass entertainment, which should satisfy most cinemaddicts, surprise almost none. Good shot: a carnival strong man tossing Red Scanlon into a creek. The Toast of New York (RKO) exhibits Edward Arnold, previously seen as Diamond Jim Brady, General John Sutter...
...pitched battles at historic Marco Polo Bridge and among the hamlets clustered about Peiping, Chinese gave a spirited account of themselves, and last week in picturesquely worded communiques they "repulsed the barbarians who tried to cut off our garrison and airport at Nan-Yuan, driving them off with our broad-swords." During this engagement two small Japanese shells burst just inside Peiping's Yungting Gate, but panic-stricken Chinese peasants continued to flee in from the countryside...
...three functions at once. Founded during another reform era - Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom - FTC is charged with 1) prevention °i unfair competition, 2) enforcement of certain sections of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, including the 1936 amendment known as the Robinson-Patman Act. It also has broad investigatory powers. Most famed FTC investigation was the eight-year probe of public utility holding companies, which netted 84 volumes of evidence and resulted in the Public Utility Act of 1935. Big as it is, touching as many phases of business as it does, FTC is only a name...
...Ball's mistress. In Easy Living this situation serves under Mitchell Leisen's adroit direction as the framework for one of the season's silliest and most entertaining farces which reaches its climax when Mary Smith invades J. B. Ball's Broad Street office with three sheep dogs at the moment when he is trying to repair the damage caused by his son's incautious revelations to a market tipster. Good sequence: a riot in the automat when Ball Jr. tries to give Mary a free meal, turns on all faucets at once...