Word: disinterestedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When noon struck one day this week U. S. Supreme Court addicts were sure that after being disappointed for a month they were at last going to be rewarded with a decision on the Tennessee Valley Authority. They had two tips: 1) Word had leaked out that the Supreme Court...
The uncontrollable passion of young Ann (Jeanne Dante) is for nothing more dangerous than the poems and paintings of the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Daughter Catherine (Florence Williams) is more painfully enmeshed in a hopeless crush on a scrupulously disinterested portrait painter (Glenn Anders). Callow Martin, one of those slightly...
Without debate, without dissent the Senate last week confirmed six appointments to the new Federal Reserve Board submitted by President Roosevelt. The seventh appointee is yet to be chosen. Three days later the old Board, set up by Woodrow Wilson 22 years ago, passed out of legal existence. Though their...
Representative-elect Main tacitly deprecated the issue after his victory. Said he: "The Townsend clubs endorsed my candidacy after it was under way, but I entered the race at the urging of disinterested friends as the candidate of no group or faction. In the critical session of Congress just ahead...
Last October in Amsterdam's Hotel Carlton, careful hands hoisted a huge white tomcat onto a small table set on a dais. Cautiously the beast sniffed at a checkered board, turned away disinterested. Soon afterward two bespectacled, scholarly-looking gentlemen sat down at the same table, studied the board...