Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Statesman Paredes answered his San Franciscan countrymen with restraint : He believed the judge had not meant to call all Filipinos savages-"but there are savages everywhere." Finally he urged his com patriots to "avoid occasions for rebuke" and sent a copy of his reply to Judge Lazarus accompanied by a note saying, "I cannot believe that you had in any way in tended to refer to my people as a whole...
...conclusion of a summer's romantic misbehavior on the Bay of Naples, Belinda Warren (Miss Laye) has returned to the dank residence of her frosty aunt. The inescapable laws of biology soon com plicate Belinda's problem. She is to have a baby. Unhappily, the baby's illegitimate father is already married to a childless invalid. The baby's illegitimate grandfather rationally proposes that the little newcomer be smuggled into his son's home, passed off as his son's legal heir...
...Treasury. Meanwhile the Chicago butchers charged that the packers had passed along their tax in the form of higher meat prices. The butchers claimed that as they had, in effect, paid the taxes, it was to them that the refund should go. Many processors sold processed com modities on a price-plus-tax basis which was not itemized. It would be hard to prove how much of the processing tax had been passed on. To keep the refund melon all to themselves, processors relied upon a legal precedent growing out of Wartime excise taxes. In 1918 Congress passed...
...Here's how." He then digressed to com ment on the quality of Philadelphia's water supply and how he intended to improve...
With Fannie Brice, on the other hand, there is practically never cause for com plaint. Her tidbit in this show is her impersonation of a solemn Jewish dancer interpreting "Rewolt" and "de Messes." Plump, ingratiating Comedian Bob Hope (Roberta) is given an amusing song to sing hopelessly to comely Eve Arden (Parade). Vernon Duke wrote the tune; Ira Gershwin the lyric...