Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before The Lake opened in Manhattan last week, with the most expensive premiere of the season, its audience had been led to expect the season's most exciting play. Producer Jed Harris, active on Broadway again after two years of noisily doing nothing, had assembled a good cast, fine sets by Jo Mielziner. For his lead, he had Katharine Hepburn who had left Broadway two years ago after a modest success in The Warrior's Husband. During that interval, with four cinema roles, she had made herself the most talked-about actress in the U. S. Too young...
...gigantic Casper-Alcova Dam project which was finally approved last summer by Presi dent Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 7). As Postmaster General Farley's No. 1 assistant, Joe O'Mahoney had the Presi dent's ear. Now that he is in the Senate his friends expect him to take his place among the small army of Presidential spokesmen in that august body...
...only serve first to focus sympathy on a Red, and secondly, suspicion and hatred on his enemies; men of Torgler's courage and intelligence make martyrs not soon forgotten. Acquittal will be a hard degree for the court to issue; Herr Goebbels has not led the German people to expect such a decision. And it will be doubly hard to pin all the burden on Van der Lubbe, after the testimony of the experts that he could not have done it alone. Who helped him? Was there, as one correspondent intimated, a second fire, laid by those who had access...
Labor's honeymoon with the present Administration is definitely over. The workingman was given a substantial lift but that push did not suffice to bring the country out of the depression, so now he may expect nothing but rebuffs. It is now the entrepreneur's turn to be listened to. It was possible for a new Administration, filled with idealism and brain trusts, to force some concessions down the delicate throats of the industrialists. But that this could continue in a laissez-faire system where power in synonymous with wealth, in inconceivable. Any permanent concessions to labor must...
...individual effect will be preserved. This is in direct opposition to a dictatorship, and as a matter of fact I do not believe the people of America should fear that such a government will be set up. A dictatorship is not a permanent form of government, and I expect that not one of the dictatorial governments existing today will last even fifty years...