Word: duction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anyone who has gone through this drought area can say a kind word for nature's method of crop re- duction," observed Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to an audience of North Dakota farmers at Bismarck. "Man's methods may be full of imperfections . . . but they are perfection itself by comparison. . . ." The rainfall in the Midwest did not deter President Roosevelt in Washington from sending Congress a special message asking for $525,0.00,000 worth of "large-scale assistance" to be parcelled out as follows: 1) $125,000,000 to give farmers without fields work on roads, public buildings...
Again, Woodrow Wilson. Meanwhile the disarmament game of Words, Words, Words began again at Geneva, though one of the players (Germany) sulked and refused to sit in at La Conference pour la Limitation et pour la Réduction des Armaments (TIME...
...last winter suffered a nervous breakdown and was reported out of Fox, last week re turned to his job of general manager. Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor have lost control of Paramount to John Hertz, taxi tycoon, and Theatre Owner Sam Katz of Chicago. Last week Paramount's pro duction manager, Ben Schulberg, resigned. Joseph Kennedy, onetime board chairman of Pathe, was reported planning to pur chase First National studios from Warner Brothers for a new company, with Mr. Schulberg in charge of production. Harry Cohn became president of Columbia in place of Joseph Brandt, planned to pay some...
...Shubert Company is showing great interest in the Club's present pro- duction, and it is possible that it may produce the play in New York professionally. The firm has done much help the Dramatic Club present the piece, having gotten it the German edition for translation by Martin Henry, instructor in German. The Club has a policy of presenting only those plays which have never been shown in the country, and many have been later produced on Broadway...
...skillful settings for The Green Pastures, Mourning Becomes Electro, The Emperor Jones and a hundred other plays, without having been distracted from the quality of the plays themselves. Robert Edmond Jones, at 28, made a sensation with sets and costumes he designed for Granville Barker's pro duction of The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife. Later he became associated with Arthur Hopkins. Now, at 44, he calls his settings "not pictures, but images. . . ." But this solid knowledge of good theatre makes Jones's designs less effective on a gallery wall than on a stage. At one time...