Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counsel to the pre-War Pujo money trust investigation, had spoken of the bill's original draft as "impossible, impracticable." Testifying before the Senate Committee last week, the aging attorney criticized many provisions as deflationary and indiscriminate, found numerous glaring omissions. Roundly he denounced a fixed formula for margin requirements, urged instead discretionary power in the hands of the central credit body, the Federal Reserve Board. The Senators and their counsel, Ferdinand Pecora, were impressed...
...cinema, where many remember him best as the doctor-husband in Reunion in Vienna. Last week Actor Morgan put on his nattiest suit, gave his mustache an extra twist and became a businessman. In Manhattan he was elected vice president of a company distributing a famed concoction whose secret formula he will never know. The company: Angostura-Wuppermann. The brew: Angostura-bitters...
...made of, and a Wuppermann is not one of them. Mr. Alfredo Galo Siegert of Trinidad, grandson of the first man ever to brew Angostura, shares his secret only with a brother and a brother-in-law. Lest something happen to ail three at once, a copy of the formula is locked in a bank vault in Trinidad, another in a vault in London...
...such confidence exists today, so far as the employers are concerned. It is difficult, therefore, for the Roosevelt Administration to propose a board or a commission, as used to be the formula for saving the country from the cost of a big strike. The reason is that the NRA, influenced as it has been by the chieftains of the American Federation of Labor, has weakened Mr. Roosevelt's position as a mediator and deprived him almost entirely of the influence he would have had under other circumstances...
...many attempted solutions to this problem which provides the plot for "Journal of a Crime" at the Paramount and Fenway Theatres. Ruth Chatterton could be expected to appear only in that drama where the solution was "a desperate act." It is not fitting that she should adopt the simple formula of Dorothy Dix--"give your husband a little something to worry about." Miss Chatterton seizes a solution that would command the hearty approval of Oswald Spengler--she pulls the trigger on her rival...