Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theme. Since both teams desire the same side of the censorship question, it remains to suggest a better theme. "Resolved: that the United States and Great Britain should immediately act to stabilize the dollar and pound sterling" is eminently debatable, of great public interest and important enough to merit the serious attention of the representatives of two great universities. Indications are that the debate will not take place unless some such vital question is discussed...
...power enough, but as an epic it lacks point. Guy Button, skilfully portrayed by J. Edward Bromberg, stands forth in the round, but his character is not of adequate significance to dovetail insaneness of pageantry. The number of minor characters is so bewilderingly large that mention of their respective merit is here impossible. But the "atmosphere" scenes are well and convincively done. The settings, designed by Donald Oenslager, elicited applause that was justly due, and the richness of the costumes bespeaks a rather optimistic attitude toward the play's longevity...
...Labor was not satisfied last week but it accepted with good grace a Presidential decision rather than embarrass its friend Franklin Roosevelt. The automobile code expired and Labor wanted a public hearing to make a fight against the code's "merit" clause, to strive to get a 30-hour week, higher wages. Manufacturers were adamant in insisting they would renew the code only if such questions were not broached. The President extended the code for three months without a hearing, but said he was going to order a Federal inquiry into the problem of stabilizing automobile employment, an inquiry that...
...truth. Though no flag of warning is displayed, there can be no doubt about the editors' propagandist intentions. They, like many another writer of late, are busily grinding their axe in the hope that some day it may fall on the neck of Der Fuehrer. The book's merit lies entirely in the originality of the idea on which it is based...
...first award of the Association's merit prize will be made Saturday evening to Leslie C. Peltier, of Delphos, O., one of the most distinguished amateur astronomers in the world--the discoverer of comets and of a nova. Mr. Peltier is known as the outstanding observer of variable stars in America. He is about 30 years old, is employed by a garage in Delphos, and has never been to college...