Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toiling and conscientious "Roy" Bulkley is. He works as hard as any man in the Senate. If he wavers on some national issues, that, his friends maintain, is because his mind moves deliberately, not because he is a trimmer. In support of this theory are his three votes against the Soldiers' Bonus, a remark he once made to Ohio Democratic chieftains who threatened to purge him unless he backed their candidate for a judgeship: "I guess it's more important for us to get a good judge than for me to stay in the Senate." Washington consensus...
...Sheridan Downey had been bitten hard by the bug of social uplift and his activities had been noticed by politicians. These men, plus Sheridan Downey's middle-aged social inspiration, plus the Moon, have made him a significant character in the transitional political year...
...Elliott of Los Angeles is a political hack, unillusioned, practical, alert. He managed Senator McAdoo's successful campaign in 1932. Perceiving how ebullient Sheridan Downey from northern California (Atherton, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto) had run ahead of Author Sinclair in the EPIC campaign, Jackson Elliott cocked an eye at him for 1938 because he knew where lay the biggest unstaked bloc of votes for that year-among EPIC and Townsend-conscious oldsters...
...Astoria, L.I. at Eastern Service Studios, two new independent companies were hard at work on two new feature pictures for Paramount release. The companies: Odessco (for Odium Steele Co.), backed by Stanley Odium, son of Tycoon Floyd Odium; Triple A (for Associated Artists of America), backed by Broker Harold Orlob. Odessco's picture: Home Town, with Wallace Ford and Stuart Erwin, directed by William K. Howard (Transatlantic). Triple A's picture: "...one-third of a nation," first WPA play to be adapted for cinema, with Sylvia Sidney and Leif Erikson, directed by Dudley Murphy (Emperor Jones...
...lawyer is examining his papers, then proceeds, by means of a long cutback, to tell the story of his life, ending at the moment when the picture begins. John Abbott (Edward Ellis), prototype of thousands of other country doctors in thousands of other Westports, was a humble, hard working general practitioner, too dour to be popular with his patients, too generous to make them pay their bills. Derived from Katharine Haviland Taylor's story The Failure, related with notable economy, his brief, triumphant biography provides Edward Ellis with a character actor's dream of a fat part...