Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would suppose that Senator McKellar of Tennessee would be greatly interested in every measure designed to improve the purchasing power of the outer world, that his chief and his constant concern would be the restoration of the world economy. But not at all. Senator McKellar's notion of how to serve the people of Tennessee is to treat their customers as if they were brigands. And to what end? That the United States Treasury should continue to exact from their customers payments which, if not received, must be borne by the taxpayers of the United States...
...Price-cutting, price-shading, concessions to favored customers, indirect rebates have demoralized the trade. Though steelmen testily deny that they are enthroning a "tsar," President Lament's chief job will be to whip steel companies into a strong and united price front, stamp out the buyer's notion that he can always wheedle a profit-sucking concession, encourage him to take on normal inventories. Said Myron Charles Taylor, biggest steelman of all: "... A decidedly progressive step. The Institute . . . should prove increasingly successful in its activities...
...Also lobbied was the notion of an Empire Super-Bank, chief lobbyist for this being Director John Ford Darling of England's mighty Midland Bank. Urging that the London pound sterling be made the Empire currency, Mr. Darling ex pressed his opinion that "the pound now has greater relative strength than at the time it was placed on gold [in 1925] and the American dollar, though backed by gold, is relatively much weaker...
Back Street (Universal). Fannie Hurst's tender and moving biography of a kept woman is here reproduced in a sincere, detailed picture. Irene Dunne is the big-hearted daughter of a German notion-store keeper in Cincinnati. She falls in love with John Boles, a pedigreed young banker, who by a series of misunderstandings, makes her his mistress instead of his wife. Though Boles is selfish and niggardly, she rejects an old sweetheart who offers her position and wealth. The young banker becomes a big banker, supported by his mistress' advice. Going to Europe on a Reparations commission, he takes...
...affecting. Director John M. Stahl has elaborated the period detail of pre-War Cincinnati and Manhattan nearly as painstakingly as did Author Hurst. Examples: The high, ugly bandstand and the uniforms of the band playing Sousa's marches-on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati; the three-step stoop before the notion store where the family chairs are drawn on summer evenings; the restfulness of the street noises?plodding hooves on cobbles, a teamster's gi-yap; pre-War Broad & Wall Streets, before the grey House of Morgan filled the corner...