Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little Tough Guy (Universal) clucks its tongue sympathetically over the bitterness of a boy whose father has been convicted of murder for killing a man while helping a picket line repulse an assault by strikebreakers. But hopelessly quartered and drawn by the tugging of four wayward plot trends, it is less notable as a contribution to cinema than it is for expressing a viewpoint cinema has seldom before ventured-that there is something wrong about strikebreaking...
Fortnight ago spring cyclone cut a swath of political destruction through a group of New Deal lieutenants who had sought to "purge" Senator Guy Mark Gillette from the party in Iowa's Senatorial primary (TIME, June 13). Last week Franklin Roosevelt picked up the pieces and prepared for more rough political weather. He was at pains to soothe hurt feelings by inviting Senator Gillette to Sunday luncheon. Son James, who had helped "My Friend Otha Wearin," Gillette's opponent, wrote the Senator a nice note...
...Iowa when Harry Hopkins, boss of WPA and a sitter on the New Deal Olympus, flatly plumped for Representative Otha Donner Wearin in this week's Democratic Senatorial primary (TIME, June 6). What would otherwise have been a routine performance amid the fields of waving corn, with Senator Guy Mark Gillette walking sedately off renominated, was instantly transformed into a microcosm of the national political situation, a furious hurly-burly involving scores of participants far beyond Iowa's borders...
...come down on a lawn rather than a lake. The owner of the place hurried up to rebuke Elmer Zook, instead helped him dismantle his glider, offered to store it in his garage, sent him home by automobile. On the way home Elmer Zook inquired, "Say, who was that guy?" Replied the chauffeur: "Edsel Ford...
...political contests in a state of which he is a native, was strongly defended by President Roosevelt today. Striking out at newspaper and Congressional criticism that Hopkins sought to "play politics with human misery" when he stated his preferences for Rep. Otha D. Wearin, young New Dealer, to Son, Guy M. Gillette in Iowa's Democratic senatorial primary race, the Chief Executive described the agitation as a great deal of smoke...