Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...killed the sales tax, substituted income and liquor taxes. With Governor Byrd's Virginia as his model, he reorganized the State government, abolishing 130 boards and commissions, consolidating 119 divisions into 22, including a new Department of Welfare. Aided by largesse from Washington, he balanced his budget, attacked and refunded the $28,000,000 State debt so that next year it will be all gone. He ended company police in the coal mines, cleaned up old State prisons. He got Kentucky to ratify the Child Labor amendment to the U. S. Constitution...
Author Daniels talked philosophy with Tennessee agrarians, interviewed David Lilienthal of TVA, investigated TVA's town of Norris, observed the astonishingly pretty girls of Memphis, and looked over the model plantation set up by the Emergency Relief Administration at Dyess, Ark. He talked to organizers of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, to planters, to bespectacled, intellectual Oscar Johnston, resident president of Delta and Pine Land Co., operators of the biggest U. S. cotton plantation. He looked in on a historic, 100-year-old brothel in Vicksburg, and talked with an educated Negro who told him that white folks...
Nicole (Danielle Darrieux), a job-seeking model, is assigned to pose for semi-nude photographs. She goes to the wrong address, starts to undress in the office of a cynical young businessman (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), who not unnaturally supposes that she has selected him as the victim of some sort of racket. Disgusted with modelling, Nicole, abetted by an ex-chorus girl (Helen Broderick) and a parsimonious headwaiter (Mischa Auer), next risks the headwaiter's savings on a frantic effort to find herself a rich fiance. Unfortunately, no sooner does she find what looks like a good prospect than...
...young Geoffrey Braemer (Bartholomew) at the moment when he is caught acting as a blind for two daring jewel thieves who have made themselves his guardians. Russell-Cotes School, to which Geoffrey is remanded in lieu of the reformatory, is a naval training institution which seems to be a model of its kind, with good-hearted Herbert Mundin to teach the boys sailors' knots and coach the lifeboat crew; Charles Coburn to improve their characters, and young Mickey Rooney to act as head prefect. To Geoffrey, the routine lacks excitement. It is not until he has insulted the headmaster...
...drinks, chases women, finally stabs a man over a "maniac beauty" and skips for good. And although by this time May has six children, she can still say: "Ain't life funny and grand?" Her oldest son turns gangster, is killed. Three daughters become schoolteacher, waitress, fashion model. When two other children become famous Hollywood stars, May goes to live in a Beverly Hills mansion. But she remains unchanged, continues to charm everybody with her full-blooded Bowery simplicity. As with Author Brinig's other novels, the most remarkable thing about May Flavin is that it is offered...