Word: francises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Goose and the Gander, with Kay Francis and George Brent, is in the comic spirit and entertained us very much. Our advice is to be sure to get in for the beginning, because who's going to do what and to whom is pretty elaborate. Paramount News has some...
Ohio State's coach, considered chiefly responsible for the current football furor in Columbus, is a greying, garrulous, good-humored ex-Army captain named Francis Albert Schmidt. He graduated from Nebraska in 1914. started coaching at Kendall College, made a reputation at Texas Christian where he functioned from 1929...
But the speech that brought the sales executives to their feet was made by Clarence Francis, executive vice president of General Foods and the man who is supposed to make that corporation hum. Cried he:
Overproduction? "Pshaw!" snorted Mr. Francis. "We do not produce enough by a third." Last year, he declared, total production of U. S. trousers was only 14,500,000-one for every three males over 15. Only one overcoat was made for every eleven men; one felt hat for every four...
Homes, Mr. Francis called "primitive." Three-fourths of the automobiles on the road are more than four years old. Farm machinery is dilapidated. Office equipment is antiquated. "Anything you choose to examine," said he, "is cluttered with wear and is simply crying for renewal and modernization."