Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada has been second to no nation in the fight against wartime inflation. Burly Donald Gordon made it official in Parliament last week, when he reported that his vigilant Prices Board had actually knocked down the Canadian cost-of-living index last year by .8. For the whole war period. Dominion determination had held living-cost increases to 18%. (The U.S. index rose 30% during the same period...
From the Psychological point of view the agreements made at Dumbarton Oaks fail to satisfy the human requirements necessary for a lasting peace, according to a statement released last night by some 2000 members of the American Psychological Association, headed by Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology. Declaring that "war can be avoided; it is not built into men," the group laid down a program of ten basic methods to strengthen the foundations of peace...
Ruth Elizabeth Collins is a comely girl who went to New York from Concord, Mass, to become a dance band singer. She changed her name to Dale Belmont, borrowing the first name of Flash Gordon's girl friend. At first she had little success. But after a microscope salesman named Joe Bonds became her manager she began wearing sweaters. Engagements at Manhattan's Versailles and Glass Hat followed...
...Firebrand of Florence (music by Kurt Weill; book by Edwin Justus Mayer & Ira Gershwin; produced by Max Gordon) sets to music Edwin Justus Mayer's 20-year-old comedy about Benvenuto Cellini, The Firebrand. Though the music itself proves an asset, it has to consort with a yarn that time has made paunchy and libretto-writing made puerile. The brawling mankiller, the dashing lady-killer, the impudent, artistic scapegallows Benvenuto (Earl Wrightson) becomes just another musicomedy swashbuckler; the plot and gags are such spinach that the whole thing turns out to be a musical poached eggs Florentine...
Victory for Antitrust; The decision, written by liberal Judge Learned Hand, reversed Manhattan's famed ad-libbing judge, Francis Gordon Caffey. Back in 1941 Judge Caffey, who had heard the testimony and arguments, cleared Alcoa of all the Government's charges. It took him ten days to deliver his opinion, took stenographers 737 pages to set it down...