Word: derelicts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flaying Mr. Henderson's recently announced Labor platform (TIME, Oct. 19) as "the most fantastic and impractical ever," Slasher Snowden attacked & summarized it thus: "All derelict industries are to.be taken over by the state and the taxpayers are to shoulder the losses. Banks and financial houses are to be placed under national ownership and control. Your investments are to be ordered by some board, and your foreign investments are to be mobilized to finance this madcap policy. This is not Socialism. It is Bolshevism...
...House of Representatives has the right to impeach any public official, and if the Power Commission shall be derelict in the performance of its duties, the orderly and constitutional manner of procedure by the legislative branch would be by impeachment and not through an attempt by the Senate to remove them under the guise of reconsidering their nominations...
...stickup man whose specialty is robbing gasoline stations. He works his way up step by step in the outlaw gang-civilization of a big city. Only one man, the mysterious "Big Boy" is higher than he when his luck changes. He loses his power, his money, becomes a flophouse derelict, and finally dies behind a billboard, chewed by bullets from a policeman's machine-gun. Actor Robinson makes Little Caesar far more complete than Author Burnett saw him? a gangster of Greek tragedy, destroyed by the fates within him. The only miscast character is Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as a tough...
...Derelict (Paramount). George Bancroft and that William Boyd who, to distinguish him from another star of the same name, is generally referred to as "the incomparable Sergeant Quirt in the stage version of What Price Glory," fight each other in many seaports and on ships for the favors of Jessie Royce Landis. They are first mates on boats of the. same line. Bancroft is the first mate who really loves the girl. Boyd is the nasty first mate. The melodramatic episodes arranged for them are well directed and plausible for this kind of thing. Best shot: a storm...
Jane was sensible, but she was pretty. It was lucky she was sensible, for her station was low, poverty-ridden: she lived with her ne'er-do-well father, her shiftless sister, on a derelict barge in the Thames, in the heart of London; worked all day as a housemaid. It was too bad she was pretty, for otherwise rich young Artist Bryan might never have noticed...