Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possesses the unfortunate characteristics of stubbouness and suspicion. He is imbued with the idea that he must carry on in the Hughes and Theodore Roosevelt vein of reform and has selected utilities as the animal which will bring him fame. Aside from the fact that this issue has no live interest today, it has given him two unfortunate ideas. The first is that the new deal should not be discussed in any form during the campaign. The second is that the Republican Party nominate Samuel Seabury, an avowed new dealer, on the fusion ticket. The result would be to break...
...French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Geneva last week, and he is 72. Never once did the verve, élan and practical wisdom of this Gascon grandfather falter. He is the grand practitioner of the Old Diplomacy. He knows what his country wants and is not ashamed to live like a discriminating prince while getting it. Last week his immediate purpose was to wangle Soviet Russia into the League of Nations but he was preparing other, greater moves in the endless chess game of international statesmanship. With the clear conscience of a Frenchman who was in his childhood when German...
...Herman Shumlin, producers). When the recorder of Torozko, Rumania, looks up the birth credentials of the village belle, he finds that she is not, as she thinks, the daughter of Catholic peasants but a Jewish foundling. Klari (Jean Arthur) promptly breaks her engagement to the village tosspot, goes to live with a kindly old Hebrew publican (Sam Jaffe), learns to like the Talmud. The town recorder looks into the matter further and discovers that Klari is neither Jew nor Catholic but a Protestant foundling. She shuts the Talmud and reopens her engagement...
...Labor Temple on Manhattan's radical 14th Street. Founded by the New York Presbytery which, to the great pain of its conservative members, foots half its bills, the Labor Temple is a forum for people of all sects. Because "people who are willing to work among Labor should live among them." Director Chaffee lives with his wife and two children on the top floor. A grey-haired, wiry man who much resembles Economist Stuart Chase, he sits on New York's Central Trades and Labor Council as a representative of the city churches, is head of the pacifist...
...story is Marget, one of the three daughters of an embittered farmer and his saintly wife. As children, the girls lead a lonely but far from hopeless life. As they grow up they begin to realize the desperateness of the family struggle for existence. When Grant comes to live with them and help work the farm, Marget and Kerrin fall in love with him. He has no eyes for anyone but Merle, who will not look in his direction. Disasters come thick & fast. A long drought nearly ruins the farm, Kerrin kills herself, Grant goes away, the mother dies. Marget...