Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week and was replaced by famed Count Volpi, who in 1925 as Finance Minister negotiated the Italo-U. S. debt accord. Swank Countess Volpi is a Jewess and so is the old mother of Fascist Minister of Education Giuseppe Bottai. Indeed, so many Jews of long standing in Italy hold places in or close to the Regime and seem to be such loyal Fascists, that intimates of Il Duce have figured from the first that his anti-Semitism was chiefly a bluffing gesture to impress the Führer and to curry a little favor from Islam to keep...
...Lion" quickly obtained from the Chilean Congress a four-month grant of extraordinary powers to handle the extremists. All Cabinet members resigned to give the President a free hand, but were later persuaded to hold on to their jobs. By last week, President Alessandri's police investigators had dug up enough evidence to make the abortive coup d'état one of the best documented revolts in Latin-American history. Revealed was a list of 12,000 alleged financial contributors to the rising. Among them were Santiago's Ford dealer, Carlos Orrego, and a University student named...
...mass interview in the Ambassador Hotel, where Douglas Corrigan was assigned a double suite with no less a roomie than Governor Frank F. Merriam. While Governor Merriam took phone calls ("Mr. Corrigan's suite. Mr. Merriam speaking. . . ."), Douglas Corrigan admonished woolgathering reporters to listen more sharply and hold their tongues, refused to repeat answers to questions. When the ticklish interview was over, Reporter Agness Underwood of the Herald & Express ducked into Corrigan's half of the suite to telephone her story in time for her paper's next edition. "Who's that in my room?" growled...
...Hold That Co-ed (Twentieth Century-Fox) can be regarded either as a football comedy with overtones of political satire or as a satirical fantasy about the career of the late Huey Long with overtones of campus comedy. It lives up to football comedy better than to political satire because even that small portion of the Long career which the film considers is too strange for fiction...
Taking Governor Gabby Harrigan (John Barrymore) at the height of his campaign for a seat in the U. S. Senate, Hold that Co-ed shows him publicizing himself by lavishing money on State College, making its football team the best in the country. The rest of the picture divides its time between the brilliant comic improvisation of the greatest Hamlet of his era as a bibulous, backslapping, vote-getting genius and a painfully routine ro mance between a homespun football coach (George Murphy) and the Governor's amiable secretary (Marjorie Weaver). Typical shot: Gabby Harrigan, having agreed...