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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tries to find them again, the camera shows dramatic glimpses into many lives. The first was a suicide for love of Cristine, but lives on in the mind of a grief-mad mother. Another, the one who wooed her in verse, is now a slick crook. The composer (Harry Baur), of whose lyric tribute she was gaily unappreciative, has turned priest. The optimist (Raimu) who was going to be president is mayor of his village, is about to wed his cook. She traces the next to the Marseille water front. There the cameras are literally tilted, and with shrewdly-angled...
...This ideal . . . has in recent years encountered serious difficulties. And these difficulties are increasing. ... In some fields it is now profitless to go where we formerly went. We find ourselves stopped at some frontiers-not because the frontiers have any greater geographical significance than they had a few years ago, but because behind them the search for truth by eager and skeptical minds has been made impossible...
Some weeks ago Gossip Walter Winchell announced in his syndicated column that Einstein was writing a book on physics "which you, you and you can understand." It is doubtful whether many of Columnist Winchell's "you's" will find The Evolution of Physics light reading. The Book-of-the-Month Club considered the manuscript at length, finally rejected it as a club selection, fearing an avalanche of returns from readers who would find it too difficult. Yet the U. S. publishers have turned out a first printing of 5,000 copies. Cambridge University Press, which is handling...
...Meanwhile, introduced in Congress by Senator Carter Glass with Franklin Roosevelt's approval was a bill to restore to RFC the power to make loans to "any business enterprise" which is unable to find funds elsewhere. RFC's original power to make self-liquidating loans was given to PWA in 1933 and RFC lending power is now limited by numerous restrictions. The Glass amendment is suggested only as an emergency measure to expire in a year's time...
...Labor Day, 1935, Promoter Gable gathered all of Oregon's bigwigs for the dedication. Dressed in dark silk shirt, riding breeches and boots, Emperor Gable was master of ceremonies, read a speech in which the instruction "chuckle" was written at appropriate spots. Said he: "I find myself shrinking into microscopic tininess beside the influence and the commerce we here set in motion." Next day an examiner of the Interstate Commerce Commission heard the application of Gilbert Gable's Gold Coast Railroad for a permit to build a 90-mile spur across the mountains into Port Orford from Leland...