Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black casket of the only millionaire on the Court rested beneath six wavy-flamed candles in the gloom of St. Matthews Church, the man most mentioned last week as Pierce Butler's successor could jingle all his wealth in his jeans at any time. Frank Murphy, once Mayor of Detroit, High Commissioner to the Philippines, now Attorney General of the U. S., was freely nominated by the Palace Janizariat to Butler's seat before the black drapes were placed there...
...Jersey, Mayor Frank Haguy nodded approval of Charles Edison, Acting Secretary of the Navy, as Democratic candidate for Governor, okayed Millionaire James H. R. Cromwell for U. S. Senator...
...Frank McHale, McNutt's organizer, could mark off another point reached in the McNutt campaign for the Presidency, which "Oomph Paul" began when he was seven years old. Apparently Mr. McHale had charted last week as "Be-Kind-To-Liberals-Week," for in seven days Mr. McNutt spoke in Lakeland, Fla., in Washington (to the pinko National Lawyers Guild), and to the Janizariat at the Cosmos-each time advocating broad-based, New Deal reform views...
...taking his favorite plot of the sheep among wolves and putting it down in the heart of U. S. political life, the Senate, Frank Capra has created something close to dynamite in motion picture form. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", like all Capra pictures, makes you laugh, cry, and sit on the edge of your seat in suspense. But this time Capra has gone a step further: he has portrayed what James Truslow Adams calls the "American dream." Granted that the picture is emotional to the nth degree, the fact remains that democracy, Americanism--call it what you will...
Critics previewed the picture in London an hour after an air-raid warning had put them in the right frame of mind. What they saw was a frank propaganda picture starring Ralph Richardson* as a Flight Commander, Merle Oberon as his Red Cross wife. But the actors had little to do, less to say. Interest was focused on the actual techniques of air fighting. High light was a re-enactment of the Kiel raid, showing the actual participants leaving and (some of them) returning. The film's thesis: Britain has developed air defenses that can scatter the modern Invincible...