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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Subscriber Hewes not look down too long a nose at advertising matter. The cash register works as hard for readers as for publishers because few and far between are the periodicals where the price readers pay covers the cost of the editorial matter they buy. The reason U. S. magazines and newspapers are by-and-large the best in the world is that U. S. businessmen spend enough money on advertising to pay a good part of the expense of publishing the quality of magazine to which the U. S. public is accustomed...
...People's Lawyer." When Woodrow Wilson sent Louis Dembitz Brandeis' name to the Senate as a nominee for the Supreme Court in 1916, it caused an uproar over his confirmation which made last summer's disturbance over Hugo Black look like a pillow fight. The Senate's Judiciary Committee wrangled over the Brandeis nomination for four months. From six onetime presidents of the American Bar Association the Committee got a petition stating succinctly that he was "not a fit person to be a member of the Supreme Court." One of the bar association presidents who signed...
...Supreme Court, made up to look like nine copies of Chief Justice Hughes, emerges from the park shrubbery to shout "No" at the President, pulls a final coup by declaring everything but itself unconstitutional...
Hurricane (Samuel Goldwyn). Since most Hollywood actors and many actresses look foolish when stripped down to a sarong, pictures requiring this type of undress are proverbially hard to cast. Producer Samuel ("The Touch") Goldwyn risked almost two million dollars on the talents of an unknown young actor and; a girl who a year ago was a $75-a-week stock player...
...films reproduce the colors of the decorations and academic gowns so brightly that the scene appears to be bathed in brilliant sunlight. There is no impression of rain, except for the numerous umbrellas and raincoats, which look strangely out of place...