Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the civilized world last week bated its breath on the eve of President-elect Roosevelt's White House conference with President Hoover on War Debts. All Europe had the idea that its economic fate was in the four hands-two of them long and sinewy, the other two white and heavy -at the White House table. Most U. S. citizens previewed the meeting as necessary and important but not epochal. Day after his return from California President Hoover picked up his desk telephone to find Governor Roosevelt talking from his Albany study. Their opening exchanges were easy...
...eve of its annual convention at Cincinnati last week the American Federation of Labor received from its all-powerful executive council a recommendation for compulsory unemployment insurance under state control. Long opposed to such a scheme, the A. F. of L. council reluctantly swung over to it because "the management of industry has not provided work security or created work opportunities for those able, willing and eager to work...
Based on the premise that "Hit's the rich what gets the pleasure, hit's the poor what gets the blime," Chrysalis moves rapidly through 16 cinematographic scenes of the high and low life of Manhattan. Lyda Cose and Don Ellis, a pair of rich and vicious flibbertigibbets, meet Eve Haron and Honey Rogers, a miniature crime wave, in a sordid resort. Lyda and Don are carrying on a puny little affair, are attracted to Eve and Honey because, although they may not be good citizens, they appear to love each other very dearly ?so dearly, in fact, that...
...eve of the beer-tide which swept the land last week, the famed Milwaukee brewing house of Pabst Corp. merged with Premier Malt Products Co. of Chicago (TIME, Nov. 14). Last week it became increasingly clear that this deal marked the passing of Pabst Corp., one of the big U. S. family-owned businesses, into the hands of outsiders. The outsiders are Harris Perlstein, aggressive young head of Premier, and his smart assistant, Philip A. Singer. Through the deal the Pabst family become large stock-holders in Premier which will run their famed company as a subsidiary...
...morally, and the going in considerably easier. The camp meeting he breaks up; to the two derelicts of the industrial world he gives a new start in life; and his step-mother, he persuades they could never be happy together. He comes upon the girl he loves on the eve of her marriage; and after rendering her fiance sufficiently disgusting with a strong emetic, he snatches her away before she knows what is happening. Through the night, pant a burning airplane, they float down the river; and in the morning they find themselves out at sea, faced with the future...