Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just as frank on his return to Munich, Dr. Schacht admitted the reason for his offer: the Four-Year Plan (to make Germany self-sufficient) is doomed to failure...
Love from a Stranger (Trafalgar). Adapted from a play by Frank Vosper (who last month disappeared in mid-ocean), this film investigates the prelude to a quiet murder in a British country house. The afternoon she advertises her flat for rent because she has just won first prize in a Paris lottery, Carol Howard (Ann Harding) receives a prospective tenant in the person of Gerald Lovell (Basil Rathbone), whose worldly manners soon so charm her that she marries him. After a gay honeymoon in Paris, they settle down together in a Kentish cottage, paid for with funds which Gerald...
...enduring without means of retaliation her displays of smug feminine understanding, may derive sneaking, sadistic satisfaction from the fate that overtakes Ann Harding in this picture. Otherwise its excellence is impaired when, in an attempt to achieve a horrifying contrast with the subdued tone of earlier sequences, Director Frank Lee permits his cast to overact the climax with some of the wildest grimacing witnessed since the screen became articulate. Good shot: Gerald excusing himself in a Paris cabaret to pick out his favorite brandy, in the cellar...
Fortnight ago a new Manhattan group including Frank Arthur Vanderlip Jr., 30, son of the onetime president of Manhattan's big National City Bank, sent a letter to stockholders soliciting proxies to use at the annual Reo meeting this week for the purpose of "revitalizing" the board. Wrote young Mr. Vanderlip: "[We have made] an exhaustive and careful investigation of a new plan for automobile and truck production and sales. ... We propose to have the company go ahead with this plan." Automotive Daily News said that the plan provided for production of 40,000 vehicles per year,* which obviously...
Since that was what Mr. Vanderlip wanted, the proxy fight ended there & then. A Harvard graduate (class of 1930), lively young Frank Vanderlip maintains offices at No. 52 Wall Street with his father, now 72. United in financial affairs, Vanderlip Jr. and Sr. parted on the subject of Prohibition. WThen old Frank became chairman of the national advisory board of the Crusaders (Wets) in 1933, young Frank joined the Citizens' Legion (Drys) within 24 hours. No family row developed, however, and young Frank never signed an abstinence pledge...