Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt last week Professor Howard Lee McBain of Columbia University said: "In the midst of a national crisis giving him opportunities for reform never before possessed by a President, he has chosen for personal and party inte/ests to play the usual game of putrid party politics...
...thick as an-other troublesome cold caught up with him. Abandoning labor on his message to Congress he went to bed, and Mrs. Roosevelt sent him up milk & toast for supper. C On Thanksgiving, 1925, Roy Olmstead, Seattle policeman, was caught redhanded docking a load of liquor from British Columbia. During Prohibition he had served practically all of Seattle's rum-running "mother boats" with speed boats which brought their cargo to shore on schedule. His fast launches were said to have got their cues from his wife who, as "Aunt Vivian," broadcast bedtime stories over a private radio...
...Could Only Cook (Columbia). A light-hearted variation on-the theme of Cinderella, the picture concerns a jobless girl (Jean Arthur) who picks up a young man (Herbert Marshall) on a park bench and, unaware that he is the president of Buchanan Automobile Co. on the lookout for novel recreation, persuades him to pose as her husband so that they can apply for cook and butler work together. Their employer turns out to be a genial racketeer (Leo Carrillo), who does all he can to further his domestics' increasingly complicated career. Failing to marry his cook himself, he discovers...
Like those earlier Columbia hits, It Happened One Night, Broadway Bill, Love Me Forever, If You Could Only Cook has a quality most easily assessed as charm, which definitely compensates for such minor shortcomings as its title, borrowed from an antique improper story and explainable only as one more evidence of the pitiful innocence of the Hays organization. Good shot: Herbert Marshall showing Jean Arthur his design for a roadster which Chrysler Corp. would do (well to examine closely...
From one of his own subordinates last week President Butler received a stern tut-tutting. In his annual report, Dean William F. Russell of Columbia's Teachers College wrote: "The little red schoolhouse, with its ignorant teacher, slight equipment, few books, red-hot stove and icy walls has become glorified in some minds; distance has lent enchantment; and the inference is that if we should only return to the good old days all would be well...