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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cynical view of many a New Dealer was last week expressed by Kenneth G. Crawford, who wrote in the Nation: "Is the Roosevelt Administration neutral? Certainly not. Is there any chance of the U. S. to stay out of another world war? Practically none. Will the Rooseveit program of liberal reform go on in the event of a general war? It will not. . . . Would the outbreak of a war mean a third term for President Roosevelt? Probably...
...Said Herr Hitler three years ago in N?g: "If I had the Ural Mountains, if we possessed Siberia, if we had the Ukraine, then Nazi Germany would be swimming in prosperity" (TIME, Sept...
Although M. G. M. added such embellishments as a misplaced fashion show to the Clare Boothe play that ran 19 months on Broadway in 1936-38,* The Women, like its original, is a mordant, mature description of the social decay of one corner of the U. S. middle classes. Prevented by the nature of the cast from publicizing the picture with a studio romance, M. G. M. pressagents did not discourage the assumption of fan writers that its trio of temperamental stars were engaged in a studio feud. This device worked well recently for Warners', when George Raft...
Earlier that morning the transatlantic cable had flashed the news: the London Exchange had been closed. By 9:45, 15 minutes before the Exchange was to open, President Henry G. S. Noble had managed to gather together 36 of its 42 governors. In Wall Street the bankers were meeting again. From all over the U. S. demands that the Exchange be closed poured in on the bankers' meeting. At the last minute, the telephone connection set up between Exchange governors and the bankers failed to work. In the excitement the bankers forgot to man their end of the line...
...Marsh the literary great seem to generate no spark. Strangely flat are his reminiscences of Anatole France, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton and A. E. Housman to whom Marsh credits this Regents Board bettering of Wordsworth: First Don: 0 cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice...