Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Point of Argument. A focus of Treaty argument more popular and pointed than the secret document argument between Senate and Administration continued last week to be the 18 big (10,000-ton) cruisers allowed the U. S. by the Treaty and Britain's insistence upon that limitation. The Navy's General Board, as a maximum concession, agreed last year to a reduction from 23, the number authorized by Congress, to 21 for the purposes of the London Conference. Admiral Pratt, when chosen to be chief U. S. naval adviser at London, protested against any cut of the General...
...Romantic Night (United Artists). This is Ferenc Molnar's The Swan, revised and softened, its crinkling wit ironed into conventional film dialog, its satire modified to focus attention on the romantic elements. Playwright Molnar was making deft fun of royalty in The Swan; in One Romantic Night Director Paul Stein is using royalty in its familiar stage function, as atmosphere. The result is only fair in spite of Lillian Gish's skill in making real the wistful, adolescent princess who loves a tutor and marries a prince. The trouble is that perhaps she never loved the tutor; such...
Alert Baltimoreans, anxious to establish their city's claims to industrial importance, point not to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, their old and most famed company, but focus attention on new industries lately settled in Baltimore. Outstanding among these are Glenn L. Martin (aviation) Co., now building a 1,O42-acre factory and airport near the harbor, Western Electric Co., building a $24,000,000 generating plant. Others are Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co., whose Baltimore factory was only recently completed, Bethlehem Steel, which maintains there the world's largest tidewater steel plant, General Electric, and of aviation companies Berliner...
...much sharper focus last week than his Supreme Court letters was the campaign Mr. Phillips was waging as a Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in this month's primary. A onetime Congressman who has grown rich in public utilities (oil and coal), he is large, rotund, married, father of five. His hair is grey, his face florid, his manner genial and approachable. He is running as an out-&-out Wet for the repeal of his State's enforcement act. Opposing him are Gifford Pinchot, a crusading Dry, and Francis Shunk Brown supported by both the Mellon and Vare factions...
...Oriental state is Communist. The focus of Communism is in European, not Asiatic Russia. Marx and Lenin, chief architects of Communism, were born respectively in Prussia and European Russia...