Word: heavyhandedness
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Minorities. As the Germans reached Bialystok last week Comrade Stalin came out with his answer. Reputedly closer to Stalin than Molotov is A. A. Zhdanov, who as director of Russia's press, runs Pravda. To Zhdanov's Pravda went the honor of answering the riddle, but Pravda'...
(RKO-Radio). Crossing its fingers behind a burlesqued title, this film is a clumsy attempt to satirize the cinema theme of regeneration. But Director Mark Sandrich and several up-&-coming young actors have an attractively lighthearted time with the heavyhanded script. As Aggie the regenerator Wynne Gibson is a slum...
The Farm Board's activities last week caused widespread commotion among private wheat dealers. No man has opposed "price-fixing" more vehemently as a feature of farm relief than President Hoover. But wheat dealers, forced aside by National Corp.'s policy of buying only from member coö...
Many of the automobile pioneers were frostbitten, ugly, rough-tongued, heavyhanded, but they spent nights in their half-built factories tightening nuts on rush orders with their own hands, and days in the offices of friends, trying to raise money and postpone payments. William Crapo Durant, twice head of General...
American Grand Guignol. One might expect the French horror-plays, in view of the season's successful exploitation of all phases of sex perversion, to prove fascinating box-office material. Not so. Perhaps it is because the theatre is way down in one of the Greenwich Village nooks of...