Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Events piled on Franklin Roosevelt thick & fast at last week's beginning: Justice Van Devanter's resignation, adverse committee's vote on his Supreme Court Plan, the Senate's "nomination'' of Leader Joseph T. Robinson for the Court (see p. 17). By the week's end, however, he was again pushing events before him, getting under way his first big project since his return from the tantalizing tarpon of Texas: his drive for wage & hour legislation...
Black as caviar was the shore with crowds squinting through telescopes, among them what British police admitted was the largest collection of foreign spies and counterspies ever to attend a British function. Of the British ships in line they were particularly anxious to see the new fast torpedo-carrying motor boats, the square-sterned anti-submarine net-layers Protector and Guardian and the antiaircraft ships, Coventry and Curlew. Old light cruisers about ready to be decommissioned, these ships have had, their superstructures swept clear and their decks jammed with batteries of the very latest electrophonic anti-aircraft guns and high...
...month ago a fast-talking, song-publishing (Isle of Capri, Serenade in the Night) Belgian named Peter Maurice Jacques Koch de Gooreynd arrived in Manhattan with a box full of Imperial Chemical's Perspex lenses. He immediately hired a publicity man and a Waldorf-Astoria suite, where he bounced lenses on the table, declared that he could sell eyeglasses for $1 or so a pair, binoculars for $2.50, cameras...
...Jimmy. As melodrama, it would be more effective if Director W. S. Van Dyke had avoided more of the cliches that tend to attach themselves to all pictures involving 1) soldiers, 2) gangsters, 3) emotional triangles. To balance its defects, They Gave Him A Gun, no masterpiece but a fast-moving, adult screen play, has the ad vantage of highly proficient performances by its three principals, notably Gladys George in her first major role since Valiant Is the Word for Carrie. Good shot: Jimmy's version of the feat that got him the Croix de Guerre...
...general business picture. Was the stockmarket forecasting another slump? Pooh-poohing the "harvest of gloomy warnings," Cleveland Trust Co.'s Leonard P. Ayres observed last week: "The declines in stock, bond and commodity prices are not astonishing. They were all overdue, for prices had been marked up overly fast by speculation. . . . Probably the chief cause of our worries is that most of us have forgotten that even during recoveries there are no such things as one-way continuously rising markets...