Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple fact that you can get not ten but a thousand different legal opinions on the subject. But the situation is so urgent and the benefits of the legislation so evident that all doubts should be resolved in favor of the bill, leaving to the courts, in an, orderly fashion, the ultimate question of Constitutionality. A decision by the Supreme Court relative to this measure would be helpful as indicating, with increasing clarity, the Constitutional limits within which this Government 'must operate. ... I hope your committee will not permit doubt as to Constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested...
...conveying it to his lips with a fork, Vegetarian Hitler picks up a stalk of asparagus with his fingers, inserts the tip between his lips, sucks vigorously, frequently consuming the entire stalk. Since most thrifty, common Germans, when they get a chance at asparagus, eat it in exactly this fashion, Realmleader Hitler again stood vindicated last week as "The Apotheosis of The Common...
...from Fitchburg to Brooklyn and were making patterns for women's clothes as well. The patterns were sold through agents. One of these, John W. Wilder, an aggressive and imaginative hawker, joined the firm with a brilliant idea. He wanted Butterick to make the masses pattern-conscious with a fashion magazine. Result was Metropolitan, founded in 1869, later changed to Delineator. By 1871 the firm was selling 6,000,000 patterns annually. Ten years later aggressive Salesman Wilder reorganized the company with himself as president and Ebenezer Butterick as secretary...
...Society and an opinionated construction engineer. Mack Hale (George Brent) is devoted to Lynn Palmer (Kay Francis) but he regards her welfare work as a waste of time. When she refuses to desert it, they agree to part forever. Possibly the real excuse for Stranded, beyond the individual fashion show which Kay Francis contributes throughout, was Warner Brothers' remorse for not including in Black Fury the scene in which a beautiful girl harangues a group of striking workers. This occurs in Stranded. When it is over Lynn Palmer and Mack Hale are happily reunited with nothing left...
...regard this effort on my part as an excellent opportunity to test out in clean-cut fashion the much-mooted question of the constitutionality of the securities acts and believe, with President Roosevelt himself, that there is very serious doubt as to their legality...