Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whittle the world's oldest stand of timber down to shingle slabs. Wayne Morris, an idealistic young landowner, is committed to preserving his mortgaged title to acreage that the gang needs to complete its shocking plan. The changing sympathies of Claire Trevor, a blonde croupière, help determine the outcome of the struggle...
...their approval by not mentioning it at all. Valley of the Giants is photographically far enough ahead of its time to deserve this type of accolade. Rich forest greens, the deep tones of turn-of-the-century interiors, the cheerful glow of full bottles on a well-stocked bar help immeasurably to give the picture character and substance. Its life blood, however, is a story which, although it is a throwback to silent cinema classics, has derived through them some of the heroic sweep and thunder of the West's lore of legendary foresters. Good shot: a falling redwood...
...these is able Sculptor Max Kalish, represented in the Baltimore show by The Spirit of American Labor (see cut) and seven other pieces. Contrasting such idealization with satirical but penetrating prints such as George Grosz's Workingman's Sunday (see cut) or Peggy Bacon's Help! (see cut), Baltimoreans last week put their teeth in the question of honest eyesight, which has become an international issue of modern...
...matter, Guild leaders stood up to Publisher Stern even when, last fortnight, he threatened to close down the Post in 48 hours. Then Mr. Stern did some telephoning. That he telephoned President Roosevelt, told him he was tired of running a New Deal organ at a loss and needed help, has been denied. But Publisher Stern did telephone John L. Lewis, to whose C.I.O. the Guild belongs. In subsequent telephone conversations with Guild officials in Manhattan, Mr. Lewis muttered something about "the White House." He advised the Guild to accept the proposition "the way Stern wants it." The Guild...
...national president, Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober last week resolved: 1) to encourage the singing of opera in the English language (see above), 2) to support the development of small local opera companies throughout the U. S., 3) to pay more attention to music in the rural schools, 4) to help the growth of orchestral music 5) to encourage mass singing, 6) to further the observance of American Music Year (1938). "At a time when the whole world the seems to have gone mad," admonished the Federation's Chicago manifesto, "it particularly behooves such organizations as ours...