Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked to explain what the future of the NRA will be he expressed the opinion that the government will naturally nor discontinue the codes, for to do so would be an outright confession of failure. If in the future the domination of the system by the large industrial units can...
The purpose-the only purpose which his most attentive listeners would allow him to have-was, in their own words, to "reassure business." Even to recognize this purpose was, for the President, an embarrassment because the necessity for reassurance could itself be taken as confession of the failure of his...
In Tappan, N. Y., when John Ellich, 71, and Marie Kiefer, 61, passed forlornly through the door of the German Masonic Home, each felt that the rest of life held but little. But to John Ellich and Marie Kiefer came love, not death. All during one year they stole off...
Ersatz. Of the hour and a half speech which followed, during which Orator Hitler slowly worked himself up to normal platform frenzy, a half hour was devoted to a labored introduction rehearsing events "since the abdication of the Kaiser," for "fairness requires that our results be judged by what would...
Brisk to the point of confession, Fog Over Frisco is not the best of Director William Dieterle's pictures. Typical shot: Bette Davis begging her anxious fiance to tolerate just one more swindle.