Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...here have always accepted that as the usual USA custom until last night when we saw a film in which the detectives removed their hats when a lady came in the room ! We didn't believe that it was an American film then, thinking that it must be English, but were assured by an American present that gentlemen in America do remove their hats...
...statistical critic who reported on the cinema Love Finds Andy Hardy [TIME, Aug. 8] must have been an insurance agent, surely is a sourpuss...
...Olsen has put his finger squarely on one of the tender spots in book-publishing, bookselling and book-page-editing. With its sales-figures reports from bookstores, TIME can manage the cold truth, though not weekly. Newspaper book-pages must rely on impressions served up as facts by worried booksellers who, only human, may sometimes let the wish father the thought. Might not TIME at its convenience poll a) book-publishers, b) booksellers, c) book-editors to ascertain whether they do not, like Pearl Buck, regard this best-seller business as half nuisance and half outright thimbleriggery...
After reciting his long affection for Georgia and his calling of a conference of Southerners to study the South as "the nation's No. 1 economic problem'' (TIME, July 18), Franklin Roosevelt said: "If the people of the State of Georgia want definite action . . . they must send to . . . Congress Senators and Representatives who are willing to stand up and fight night and day for Federal statutes drawn to meet actual needs...
Having found Congress and the U. S. people in mood to spend, General Craig now figures after three years of record spending that the army has about half the material it needs as a minimum for M Day action. He calculates that the U. S. must spend at least $142,000,000 more to put its army on a "sensible" preparatory footing. Last spring, with the potent help of a White House message, he persuaded Congress to meet the principal deficiency -in anti-aircraft equipment. In Malin Craig's last year the army is spending or allotting...