Word: herman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ribbing was not long in coming. Massachusetts' sour-faced Treadway, ranking Republican on the committee, recalled that Mr. Morgenthau's counsel, the late Herman Oliphant, had argued "at very great length and very emphatically" for the Undistributed Profits Tax only two years ago. He welcomed Mr. Morgenthau "into our line of thought." Why the change of heart, asked Mr. Treadway...
...Herman Stehr, a kind of German Knut Hamsun, writes about peasants. Hans Grimm is the author of a novel whose enormous length (1,300 pages) belies its title: People Without Room. A Nazi classic, it is often contrasted with Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, to Mann's disadvantage...
Eastman and Herman Axelbank spent 13 years assembling movie shots made by newsreel men, Red and White propaganda films, and pictures taken by amateur photographers including Tsar Nicholas II himself. The producers of the film have attempted to counteract the effects of official Soviet films which have been accused of minimizing the role played by Leon Trotsky in the Revolution...
...strangled the rabbit because Undersecretary Hanes bred it without even a stump of the undistributed profits tax tail which Franklin Roosevelt so much admired in the 1936 tax rabbit bred by the late Herman Oliphant.* In simple terms, the Hanes formula...
Margaret Webster finds Broadway much more exciting than London, though she protests that Broadway still reveals "an awful hangover from what the Shuberts did in 1910." Her favorite U. S. directors are Guthrie McClintic (Mamba's Daughters), Herman Shumlin (The Little Foxes), but she. has no desire to be, as they are, a producer as well. Acting, directing, adapting plays, writing a book about her family keep her pleasantly occupied...