Word: null
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thunder Over Mexico (Upton Sinclair) is a feature length null picture whittled out of the gigantic 243,000-ft. opus which Director Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein made in Mexico over two years ago. In silent form with a musical accompaniment, it investigates a minor miscarriage of social justice on a Mexican hacienda toward the end of the last century. A peon and his fiancee go to their ranch owner for permission to marry. One of the hacendado's guests rapes the girl. The peon strikes her assaulter, then tries with four friends to retrieve the girl from a tower into...
...approval of the so-called bombing is based first, on the 13th, 14th, null and 16th verses of the 2nd Chapter of the Gospel according to St. John.* Secondly it was as effective as an act of violence yet caused the destruction of neither life nor property. In this respect it is superior to the justly praised Boston Tea Party. Finally, by being subject to a mild wave of tear gas, I believe those in and about the Stock Exchange may begin to realize the tremendous amount of bitterness which is constantly growing in our midst as the result...
...dictator of the State's finances, with power to suspend or withhold appropriations, reduce personnel. Last week Governor Moore, still true to the Princeton Plan, selected John Colt, 43, able Princeton banker and onetime assistant professor of politics at the university, to fill the null position. Fiscal Commissioner Colt, dapper, popular, brainy, is a Republican. His appointment gave evidence that Democratic Governor Moore was sharply avoiding politics in public expenditures. Son of a Kansas City minister, "Dictator" Colt studied at Princeton, served with the A. E. F., returned to teach at Princeton. He married Eleanor Boyd, sister of Author...
...emphatic objector to Steel's limited concessions to Labor. With all the prestige of the New Deal behind her, she pointed out that the proposed 40-hour week would not help to re-employ 150,000 jobless steel workers, that the proposed minimum wage null an hour) would not help to restore 1929 purchasing power. She called for an end to the seven-day week, the use of labor spies, discrimination against Negroes and the hourly basis for wage calculation. Said she: "It is disappointing that the industry did not rise to the opportunity of ruling out all unduly...
From a flying start in front of the grandstand Roscoe Turner and Jimmy Wedell vanished neck-&-neck into the haze. At the end of the first 10-mi. lap Turner roared around the home pylon in the lead. But when they popped out of the mist again, null was in front. Then Turner took the lead, held it to the end of the race...