Word: maudlinity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington statistician hired by the commission for the purpose, Cecil Vearl Maudlin, made a survey and joyfully "discovered" that eight of the ten big anthracite producers and seven of the nine anthracite railroads were "controlled" by Morgan interests. In 1920 the Supreme Court ordered the anthracite carriers to divest themselves of their coal properties. According to Mr. Maudlin, the result of that order was that both mines and railroads fell into the hands of Morgan & friends. And Mr. Maudlin reported: "Under such a situation they can forego profits on the production of anthracite and recoup them in high freight rates...
...Maudlin's thesis of Morgan control was supported not by evidence of security ownership but by the debatable theory of interlocking directorships-i. e. if a Morgan partner sits on the board of Guaranty Trust and a Guaranty Trust official sits on the board of a coal company, then the House of Morgan controls the coal company-not to mention the Guaranty Trust. But Governor Earle promptly opened up on "the witch doctors of Wall Street...
Meantime in Manhattan denials popped from nearly every important banking door. A sweeping Morgan denial took in almost everything short of War guilt. Chairman Jackson Reynolds of Manhattan's First National ("The Baker Bank"), an articulate banker, cracked: "A newspaper states that the author of the report is Maudlin. It seems to me that the report also is accurately characterized as maudlin...
...with a few comedy lines almost up to the standard of the ones she had in My Man Godfrey; and reminding cinemaddicts that Fred MacMurray, who can really play a trombone, got his start in cinema after a five-year career as a member of the California Collegians. Most maudlin shot: Skid's response to the information that Maggie is going to leave him-tooting Mendelssohn's Wedding March discordantly in a hotel corridor...
...sissy are the pert, Fauntleroy-like Freddie Bartholomew, who distinguishes himself above his older colleagues, where acting is required. In places the reform story of the son of an executed murderer and the son of a voluble A.E.F. veteran who made "the world safe for democracy," drags. It is maudlin to hear the judge in the juvenile court make friends with the boys, suspected of a burglary, by telling them the devil failed to be an angle because he wasn't tough enough. Elsewhere it moves with the pace characteristic of polished direction and capable acting. The scene of Bartholomew...