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...should be empowered to build transmission lines, substations, etc. etc. More than that, he should have a power (which TVA does not have) "to acquire by eminent domain if need be, such real and personal property, franchises, electric transmission lines and facilities as may be necessary"-in short to condemn and take over private facilities...
...hardly entertaining in itself after an hour or so. As so many directors before him, producer Selznick has relied on a panorama of Morrocco and its outlying districts to sustain an old story that had no business being converted into a movie in the first place. But to condemn the picture's direction and plot is not an deprecate either the acting of its stars or the Impressive Technicolor in which it is filmed. Marlene Dietrich as a rich adventuress and Charles Boyer as a renegade monk give performances that one can appreciate without an adequate story, and the picture...
...anybody caught selling, buying or smoking opium was going to be executed beginning New Year's Day. In Peiping alone 100,000 executions were promised, and 5,000 bloodthirsty persons went to the public execution ground outside the old city walls to see heads topple. "The world may condemn us for what may be a wholesale execution of drug addicts," began a high Peiping official's terrifying speech, but he ended by saying that the Nanking Government had only been trying to throw a salutary scare into as many people as possible last week. The blood-thirsty...
Much about "bibbing" Legionnaires, many of whom were local "jelly beans," and the Legionnaires you condemn were only a small percentage of the total number in Cleveland...
...public and responsible teacher of morality in this community I cannot let pass statements attributed to Father Coughlin in the daily press. When Father Coughlin says, within the limits of this diocese, that he advocates the use of bullets . . . I must on moral grounds protest and condemn such a statement. . . . I must condemn the statement which seems clearly to say that Mr. Roosevelt is anti-God. . . . I hope that on consideration he will retract...