Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Faculty members were solicited by a committee of three professors, Ralph B. Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Edward K. Rand, Pope Professor of Latin, and Frank W. Taussig, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Emeritus. This was done through the Community Committee through the medium of Congressman Richard M. Russell, of Cambridge...
...Frank Churchill, Lee Harling, and Paul Smith have written music exactly suitable to the theme that has required three years of labor to produce. Perhaps what makes this a masterpiece of cinema entertainment, in addition to the color medium and settings, is the actual creation of seven individual characters, all of them dwarfs made with pen and ink, yet all tremendously human...
...Pierson's main argument for donations was an echo of a frank and factful study of the contraceptive business which FORTUNE published last week. Deplored he: "The majority of married couples are forced to worry along with drugstore methods of contraception. Millions of dollars' worth of material-comprising 1,500 to 2,000 devices-are being distributed through drugstores, cosmetic shops, pool parlors, gas stations, house-to-house canvassers...
Died. Edward A. Kenney, New Jersey Congressman since 1933, sponsor in 1934 of a billion dollar national lottery bill; by a six-story fall from the Hotel Carlton, in Washington, few hours after praising Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague at a New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Dinner in the building...
Peopled with the stock characters of a Western thriller, Boom Town is notable for this realistic picture of its gunmen. The story revolves around Frank O'Rielly, who stumbles on a silver mine, exploits it with a young Eastern assayer, gets rich, falls in love with his partner's wife. Knocking down too many braggarts and bullies to be quite real, O'Rielly is, nevertheless, an interesting sketch, although hardly more; he is too intelligent to fit into the brutal, amoral environment in which he lives, but even more contemptuous of the world of bankers and speculators...