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...meal with the senior partner of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood would doubtless have made a much better third act than the one offered in A Hat, a Coat, a Glove. It is a gloomy and exceed ingly unreal courtroom scene in which A. E. Matthews, the suavest English actor on the U. S. stage, bites his nails politely while he refutes a rumbling district attorney. It ends with Lawyer Mitchell telling his wife to blow her nose. She indicates that she loves him still by borrowing his handkerchief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 12, 1934 | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...will be awarded in the years 1933-34 and 1934-35 for the best essay on an approved subject connected with the Philosophy of William James. The prize is open to students of philosophy registered in Harvard College or the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Essays must not exceed 10,000 words in length; and must be submitted on or before March 1, the subject having been approved by the Chairman of the Division of Philosophy on or before February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prize of $100 Offered for Essay on James' Philosophy | 1/24/1934 | See Source »

...TIME, confronted with the problem of how much advertising it could handle, assured cover-to-cover readers: "Until the end of 1930 no issue of TIME will exceed 80 pages plus cover and color in serts." When the problem becomes acute again, TIME will attack it again, probably in the same way.-ED. Accused Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...added if the Federal liquor tax is raised to $2 a gallon (see p. 15), nor about $150,000,000 which may be raised by plugging holes in the income tax law, nor any prospective War debt payments. In spite of these omissions, 1934 revenue was estimated to exceed ordinary expenses plus AAA's half billion by $215,000,000. And 1935 revenue was estimated to exceed ordinary expenses plus AAA's three-quarter billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Last Dollar | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...outlay of 1934, might have announced a deficit not of $7,309,000,000 but of $3,339,000,000. Then he might have told Congress in sober truth: "Last summer we planned to run into debt for $3,300,000,000 of emergency expenditures. We expect to exceed this amount by only $39,000,000. For fiscal 1935 our budget, including all emergency expenditures now foreseen, is estimated to balance with a surplus of $14,000,000. Some unforeseen expenditures may be required, but we hope to keep them as small as possible. Certainly the deficit for 1935 will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Last Dollar | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

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