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...Harry Collins mend his talk. TIME did not call conservative Alfred Emanuel Smith a Communist. On the contrary, for illustrative purposes TIME drew the parallel between Mr. Smith, prime representative of the Old Deal in the U. S. Democracy, and Leon Trotsky, prime representative of the Old Deal in Bolshevism, the one superseded by Franklin Roosevelt, the other by Josef Stalin...
...thing that is helping to raise steel operations at a time of the year when they generally fall is railroad buying. With traffic on the mend the railroads have started to buy rails and equipment in a big way for the first time in years. In the three months through November the railroads ordered 680,000 tons of rails and fastenings. In the same period of 1934 the total was a measly 36,000 tons. Orders continued to pour in last week, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe alone requiring 155,000 tons of rails and fastenings worth $6,135,000, biggest...
...require realism, intertwining is done with remarkable skill. A journalistic slip so incenses Walter Connolly that in behalf of his daughter, Miss Loy, he sues the paper for $5,000,000 to be annexed to his other $50,000,000. Mr. Powell is called upon by Mr. Tracy to mend things, and his strategy involves a nominal marriage with Spencer's longsuffering but not over-patient girl, Miss Harlow. The latter, utterly baffled by William's willingness to let the marriage stay nominal, obeys the cinematic law of things, and decides that she doesn't want it to stay nominal...
...Despite the reasonable arguments of Messrs. Sibley, May, and Houston, the House held only perfunctory hearings on the bill. The 240 pages of legislation, embodying an entirely new departure in our theory of taxation, were at no time carefully scrutinized by House legislators. Mindful that it is easiest to mend political fences with federal posts, the Representatives yielded to the clock-room arguments of James Aloysius and rolled the measure through the House...
...When Berlin pays him a visit he finds Lieutenant Kroysing a patient there too. Kroysing is furious that Niggl has given him the slip but swears he will corner him again somehow when he has recovered from his wound. Berlin's man-made misfortunes seem momentarily on the mend. The pretty head nurse knows his books and admires them. Thanks to her personal influence with the Crown Prince, he is transferred to a better job, with an army corps that is leaving for the comparative comfort and quiet of the Russian front. The nurse and Lieutenant Kroysing fall...