Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps because of the innate conservatism which moves his light-hearted Hyde Park neighbor Franklin Roosevelt to call him "Sad Henry" or "Henry the Morgue," Secretary Morgenthau has long been encouraging the same bridge between the New Deal and U. S. Business which the President was last week trying to throw up in Washington (see col. 1). Since an excellent evidence of the sincerity of Franklin Roosevelt's intentions would be to have Henry Morgenthau publicly advocate a rapprochement with the same fervor he is understood to display in private, some 1,000 curious Academicians turned out to hear...
...their competition at an official close. All through the customary locker-room scene of jubilation or dejection they will be seen scurrying about their duties, still competing. All around them will be an atmosphere of broken discipline, as their zero hour approaches. Finally, Manager Bob Whitman '38, will call them into the Jayvee Coaches room...
Once upon a time there was a small edition of a chariot race in "Ben Hur," a minute earthquake in "San Francisco," and, unless memory fails, it seems the locusts came to call in "The Good Earth"; a few hundred extras were shot or trampled on in "Charge of the Light Brigade," but to see nature in the raw without once thinking of miniatures, wind machines, or water chutes, to see the best love scenes in many a moviegoing month, to experience two full hours of complete mental anguish, a trip to "Hurricane" is essential...
Despite its genial aimlessness, I'd Rather Be Right succeeds in venturing with impunity into an almost unprecedented form of satire. No stage has ever had such temerity in lampooning members of an existing government by name. Playwrights Kaufman & Hart call no bad names but give all the right ones...
...Russell's instructions for holding trials call for at least 20 juries "to exhibit a cross section of the growing public sentiment against liquor." Philadelphia's 20 juries represented not only the usual teachers, parents, businessmen, high-school students, ministers, mothers but a jury of twelve "redeemed men" from the city's Whosoever Mission. The chief justice (Judge Welsh) read them a charge which urged them to consider whether Alcohol is guilty of various capital crimes committed by people under its influence, of causing poverty, insanity and bodily disability. The juries could, if they wished, make...