Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seldom does smart Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff go home to Moscow empty handed. In Geneva last week, while no one else was getting anything substantial at the Dis armament Conference (see col. 3), he put screws on King Alexander of Jugoslavia to recognize the Soviet Union. Roly-poly Comrade Litvinoff had just obtained in Geneva recognition from the other two countries of the Little Entente, Czechoslovakia and Rumania. Since King Carol was at last able to stomach Bolsheviks, why should not his brother-in-law King Alexander...
Roly-poly Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, next climbed the rostrum. In all previous Disarmament sessions, Comrade Litvinoff's tactics have been to demand 100% disarmament at once, to pledge Russia to anything the other powers would agree to, and then to sit back and chuckle hugely as red waves of embarrassment flushed his capitalist friends' cheeks. But things have changed in the past year. The growth of Hitlerism, formal recognition of U. S. S. R. by the U. S. and the possibility that Russia may soon take out a full League membership have left the capitalist world...
...England and had done very well in profits out of the perpetual dogfights in the Balkans and the Near East, to which he was puryeyor and of which he was frequently (it was an easy trick once he learned it) instigator. The American that gladdened his heart was Hiram Maxim, whose new machine gun was incomparably the best killing machine Zaharoff had ever seen. Zaharoff took Maxim to his bosom, with reservations. First he used his wily, polyglot salesmanship to block the gun's sale in Austria as an impractical toy; them, when he had offered Maxim a partnership...
Double Door (Paramount), one of last year's stage hits, is a macabre melodrama of a woman's greed. Like the famed Wendel family, the Van Bretts owe their fortune in Manhattan real estate to a simple maxim: "Never sell." Head of the gloomy house of Van Brett is Spinster Victoria (Mary Morris), a malevolent despot who rules the others with a rod of gold. When her half-brother (Kent Taylor) marries a hospital nurse (Evelyn Venable), Victoria determines that this "upper servant" shall never touch Van Brett money...
Success at Any Price (RKO) is a manual of futility, bitterness and despair, adapted from John Howard Lawson's play Success Story and designed to bludgeon home Hollywood's maxim that money is not everything. Joe Martin (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is prompted by the death of his gangster brother to leave the East Side and rise in the world. Helped by his sweetheart Sarah (Colleen Moore), he gets a job in an advertising agency. His success soon begins when with the aid of a dictionary he turns out better copy than a college-bred rival. By dint...