Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working days they hoped to do what would keep a regular session humping for six months. As a starter last week the Senate opened leisurely debate on turning the Philippines loose. House Democrats, less visionary than their Senate brethren, formulated no elaborate schedule of legislation. Their primary concern was to pass eleven bulky bills appropriating some four billion dollars on which to run the Government during fiscal 1934. Unless these are all enacted before March 4 a special session of the 73rd Congress is inevitable. Later the House will vote on a beer bill and perhaps knock together a special...
Said the editors of their purpose: "This quarterly . . . will not attempt to form any single school of economic doctrine. . . . Ultimately, we recognize that the way of life is more important than the means, but our interests and present exigencies lead us to concern ourselves with the latter...
...Premier Herriot faced his Chamber of Deputies, placed blame for the debt muddle squarely upon the shoulders of Herbert Hoover. Said he: "The Hoover moratorium is the cause of all the trouble in which America's debtors are now involved. If the U. S. did not wish to concern itself with the problem of reparations, Mr. Hoover should not have become involved in it." But to M. Herriot blame and honor were not to be confused. Dramatically he reminded the Deputies of "Les Soldats Americains," raised his great voice in booming praise of those "who died for France...
...bedazzled Marine (Gary Cooper), an ex-vaudeville actress (Alison Skipworth) and her husband (W. C. Fields), a condemned murderer (Gene Raymond) are also among Mr. Glidden's beneficiaries, as is a miserable fat clerk (Charles Laughton). This clerk waddles to the office of the president of his concern, pauses to straighten his necktie, then opens the door. What he does next is impossible properly to describe. The last recipient of Mr. Glidden's largesse is Mrs. Walker, the most energetic inmate of an old lady's home. She uses her money to turn the home into...
...recent rôle of sued but as suer Mr. Fox made news last week when the first of his major suits against the makers and users of sound film reproduction equipment for alleged infringement of patents (U. S. rights to which Mr. Fox personally acquired from a German concern in 1928) was brought to trial in Brooklyn. Under the name American Tri-Ergon Corp. (90% owned by Mr. Fox) he is seeking a permanent injunction against Paramount Publix Corp., together with an accounting of the profits Paramount has earned. Other suits are pending against RKO Radio Pictures...