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Bankrupt-Actor Richard Bennett, father of Actresses Barbara, Constance and Joan; by voluntary petition, listing no assets, liabilities of $6,157, largest of which is an $800 chattel mortgage on his auto held by Daughter Joan; in Manhattan...
...will be an ever more imminent possibility as long as capitalism lasts--a social order which, like the systems of fendalism and chattel slavery which preceded it, has outlived its usefulness to the majority of those who live under it. It therefore behooves this majority to organize both politically and industrially for the purpose of eliminating the old system and building the new. It is to this task that the students of today must turn themselves if it is their desire to do away with war, crime, unemployment, poverty, class conflict, politicians, and the other evil effects of a disintegrating...
Theoretically, the Vinson Bill is a piece of legislation regularly originated and sponsored by an elected representative of the people of the U. S. Actually, it is child & chattel of the American Legion. Of that fact, in the final hearings before the Committee vote last week, the Legion's Commander Frank Nicholas Belgrano Jr. and its No. 1 Lobbyist John Thomas Taylor made no bones. "Our bill," said they, and "the American Legion ... its bill. . . ." But when the question came up of how to raise the $2,137,975,157 called for by the bill, Lobbyist Taylor modestly referred...
...bond slave, chattel, fawning hound...
...Voronsky with a machinegun, between intervals of comic relief by Zasu Pitts as a handkerchief-wringing tourist and Edward Everett Horton as a timid lover. Gwili André, a beauteous mannequin who deserted the fashion magazines for Hollywood, is the mysterious refugee suspected of being Voronsky's chattel. She falls in love with Richard Dix who spurns her, until in the last reel they all escape with surprising ease to the river. No credible picture of modern China, Roar of the Dragon is fair melodrama. White men and women maintain copybook virtues in the unspeakable shadow of Mongol bloodlust...