Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party seems the more likely; when face to face with the responsibility of smashing capitalism in Great Britain, they will choose rather to abdicate than to fight. Brought up on the patient parliamentarism of the Webbs, the Wallases, and Shaws, they are gradualists to the core; they deplore the fate of Social Democracy in Germany and in Italy and consider the Fascists really quite unsportsmanlike. With the 1931 debacle just behind them they issue a declaration of faith in Democracy rather than Dictatorship, and look askance at G. D. H. Cole and his companions of the left wing who plumped...
...unprincipled villain named Sevilla (Stiano Braggiotti) is about to lure away to Paris Betty Findon (Daphne Warren Wilson), an impressionable young woman who does not know the horrid fate which awaits her in South America. Her childhood sweetheart, Colin Derwent (Bramwell Fletcher, a capable young Englishman returned to Broadway from Hollywood), can save her only by murdering Sevilla. A barrister, young Derwent has to use all the tricks his quick mind can provide to save himself from the gallows...
...Montreal last week the fate of Canada's venerable Price Brothers & Co., Ltd. (newsprint) was finally settled. Suffering from the gutted newsprint market, Price Brothers defaulted on its bonds more than a year ago. Britain's potent publisher, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook, whose papers used Price newsprint and whose brother Allan Anderson Aitken was a director, tried his hand at reorganization but was blocked by the bondholders. Last April Price slipped into receivership. Other interests including Duke-Price Power (Aluminum Co. of America affiliate) wangled for control. Last week the bondholders committee sold Price Brothers to 55-year...
...official seating arrangement was finally restored. Thus it was learnt that a class in geology can take an active part in a first-class cataclysm, and still have half an hour left for sleep or for hearing a lecture on the character and ancestors of the responsible Mr. Fate, who slyly escaped the danger zone...
...with Eugene Palette is the high light of the program. It seems that there has been a big lottery. Unbeknownst to himself a sailor with an anchor tatooed on his chest holds the winning ticket. A band of unscrupulous racketeers seeks to learn the identity of this child of fate and employ the services of a shapely blonde...