Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour singer (Ginger Rogers). The two love but are separated by O'Brien who does not wish to alienate Powell's 20,000,000 admirers. When Ginger Rogers once more helps Powell, the sponsors and radio folk are so impressed by their singing together that they are glad to hire them as a duet. Good song: ''I'll String Along With You." Good shot: Powell beholding Ginger Rogers for the first time as she rehearses in a glass booth...
...location of some of its plants in the centre of the Detroit automobile industry. Questioned about a report that he had been offered a $1,000,000 annual salary from another steel company, Chairman Ernest Tener Weir last week refused to name the bidder, but declared: "I'm glad I didn't accept...
...steelmaster's hero for his embattled stand against the labor provision of the Street Code, Chairman Weir was also glad last week when Secretary Ickes approved a contract of $47,402.89 let to National's subsidary Weirton by New York Central R. R. for spikes and tie plates. Pending in a Wilmington, Del. Federal court is the Government's action against Weirton for violation of the labor section of the National Industrial Recovery...
...there is one tradition that might well go by the board it is America's insistence on a jury trial. Juries have been hailed throughout the ages as the guardians of justice but people have lost sight of the neat little tricks that Father Time is only too glad to play. Since the time when the jury was created to give the defendant a break Father Time's sickle has done a lot of work. And one of the changes that has come about--improved methods of communication--has gone a long way toward weakening the value of a jury...
...oldtime religion, even cloaked in the new creed of Communism, is not quite good enough for John Dos Passos either. But in all countries he is glad to observe the old forms breaking up. First-rate reporter, he keeps his editorial comment packed, neatly tacit, between the lines. In All Countries is a collection of quick camera shots made in the last nine years in Russia, Mexico, Spain, the U.S. Dos Passes' angle is never strictly orthodox, from either camp's point of view, but his camera is candid, though tilted perceptibly to the left. His tale...