Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kinds of speeches does he make, the long exposition of a large subject, the short explanation of his own position. The latter always begins: "I want to say something in regard to my vote." Thus did he open a fine-drawn justification of his vote fortnight ago for the recall of the Power Commission nominations. He reasoned that of course the Senate had no legal power to take the nominations from the President but that he assumed the President would welcome an opportunity to resubmit them to the Senate to clear himself of the suspicion of befriending the "Power Trust...
Reducing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Critics who lament each slapstick comedy Marie Dressier makes as a deterioration of her art, wistfully recalling her work in Anna Christie and Let Us Be Gay, apparently forget that in the two latter plays Miss Dressier had bit-parts and that making a bit-part stand out is easy and not always justifiable. In Reducing, as in her other full-length roles, Miss Dressier works hard and with some skill, but the results are not memorable. She comes from the country as the permanent guest of her sister. Polly Moran, who has grown rich running...
...pipe gang in Coalinga field. In 1910 he went with North American Oil Consolidated, in 1915 with Shell Co. of California. Later he was made production manager of the Royal Dutch-Shell group and given a choice of office in either London or Los Angeles. He chose the latter...
...months ago last week John Barry Ryan Jr., strapping young grandson of the late Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, became a newspaper publisher (TIME, July 14). He bought the stagnant New Jersey Freie Zeitung, created also the Newark Free Press, believed he could make the latter a big enough success to lift the former. Last week the Free Press was no more. It, and the Freie Zeitung (which continued publication) were in receivers' hands, admittedly insolvent...
...answering the questions, which can be divided into two main subdivisions: the first of these will include a number of factual questions which will call for knowledge of small bits of information on various subjects: the second group will call for much wider information on longer answers. The latter will be in "editorial style" and are to be no longer than 500 and no shorter than 250 words...