Word: carlson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backed by organized labor groups, supported by men and women in all walks of life, and perhaps the subject of more honest letters than Congress has received in many months, the Carlson version of the Ruml Plan lost in the House Tuesday as a result of Administration protests that large taxpayers would be "forgiven" their taxes...
...crowbar the biggest stumbling block now in the way of his plan: the plausible-sounding objection that the Treasury would "lose" a year's income if a year's taxes were "forgiven." Not so, said Businessman-Banker Ruml in a letter to Kansas Congressman Frank Carlson: the Treasury would, if anything, collect more money with pay-as-you-go than without it. The Ruml reasoning...
Previously Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson, under whom Roosevelt served as second in command, had received a like decoration. For the Roosevelt family Jimmy's was the first medal of the war: a second was won by Lieut. Colonel Elliott, commander of a photographic unit in North Africa, who received the D.F.C. last month (TIME...
Walter Pidgeon plays the short-tempered, sex-proof overseer of an African rubber plantation, whose greatest problems are monotonous isolation and attempts to keep an assistant at the jungle outpost for longer than six months. The film begins with the arrival of a new assistant (Richard Carlson), whose many good intentions are soon destroyed by the dry rot and the charms of scheming Tondelayo (Lamarr). As soon as Carlson starts laying in "many silks and bangles" for the gold digging Tondelayo his days are numbered, but before he returns to civilization with a good case of malaria he manages...
...Leon Gordon's resurrection of "White Cargo" in movie form as one of the year's foremost blunders. Although a well-handled advertising campaign may give this production large box office receipts, it can do little to repair the damage done to the acting prestige of Walter Pidgeon, Richard Carlson, and Hedy Lamarr. These three are the victims of a plot and setting as hackneyed as any the film industry has seen...