Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the opening blare of trumpets (8.20) to the final tear-laden fadeout (11.29) the picture maintains a level of fabulous lavishness which bears aureate witness to the accepted rumor that the Goldwyn boys spent $500,000 an hour on this supreme effort. The saga of Ziegfeld commences at the Chicago World's Fair, where the master is offering the muscles of the mighty Sandow. Even at this early stage in his development "Ziggie" realizes that his main theme is a rhapsody on the theatrical potentialities of the female form. He brings Anna Held to America and makes...
Faculty men interviewed by Dr. Bock did not consider the men concerned inherently better scholars; rather their work would seem to have stimulated them to greater effort...
...amiable Communist Bedacht. By the time his statement was finished, the Democrats were sickly aware of what had happened: The Communists had in principle joined the New Deal on the tax bill. Hastily Mr. Bedacht was cross-examined in an effort to prove that he really opposed many features of the bill...
Last week because the Stock Exchange failed to suspend a member until after his firm was enjoined from further business by the Attorney General of New York, President Gay got his first taste of stern public criticism. Walter P. McCaffray & Co. got into trouble in an effort to bolster an affiliated concern called German American Securities Co. Inc. by lending it some $100,000 last summer. To raise part of that sum Walter P. McCaffray & Co. borrowed too freely upon its customers' securities. Meantime, according to the prosecuting attorney, German American was doing some highly irregular bookkeeping...
...have no connection with the Tercentenary and were arranged entirely separately. Jerome D. Greene '96, director of the Tercentenary, could not be reached last night for confirmation of the official relationship between the University's Tercentenary program and any such services but issued a statement Saturday revealing that an effort had been made over a year ago to find out whethers it would be advisable to shift the dates in view of their conflict with Rosh Hashonah. Jewish alumni throughout the country were consulted personally and by letter and upon their advice it was decided not to change the dates...