Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farmer Takes a Wife is easily an improvement, in scope and movement, upon the play, based on Walter D. Edmond's novel Rome Hani, from which Edwin Burke derived it. Essentially, it is less a story than the portrait of a place and a period-the Erie Canal, a quarter of a century after it was opened in 1825. To shrewd observers, it was even then apparent that the canal, as the main freight route between the Midwest and the sea, was doomed by the railroads...
...which its surroundings have produced. It is the surprisingly touching story of a farm boy (Henry Fonda), working as a boater because he wants money to buy land, and a girl (Janet Gaynor) who finds it difficult though not impossible to love a man who does not worship the canal where she has been born & bred...
...late the Panama American's stormy crusading publisher, Nelson Rounsevell, has been enraging U. S. Army officers in the Canal Zone's Fort Clayton by headlining stories to the effect that merciless discipline and overwork in tropical heat have driven enlisted men to smoking narcotic marijuana cigarets, caused four of them to commit suicide. An Army investigation whitewashed officers. Last week Rounsevell was arrested on five criminal libel warrants, sworn out by topnotch U. S. Army officers in the Canal Zone. Bail...
...good living and on the paintings of his contemporaries. He frequently opened the bidding with a price three times what any Dutch burgher ever paid for a picture, to "raise the prices for paintings in Amsterdam." But he moved from the house of his dealer, van Uylenborch, to a canal-side warehouse where he could paint, on the side, sagging old women, ghetto characters, Biblical allegories...
...Arias' gratification at last week's victory was not tempered by the fact that the rent money will never get nearer Panama than Manhattan since the canal rent is pledged to pay U. S. holders of Panama bonds. President Arias has refused to follow Franklin Roosevelt in one respect: he has been a strict budget-balancer and the rent money will help even if it never reaches home. Lest, however, any U. S. citizen profit by his Government's keeping its word, Panama immediately demanded that its U. S. creditors accept 4% instead...