Word: one
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago it found one: neat, elm-shaded Flemington (pop.: 2,700), site of the notorious Hauptmann trial. With a consistent assessment policy, a tax rate that seldom fluctuated, little debt, conservative little Flemington, near New Jersey's western border, looked good to harassed Standard. Into the tiny law office of sedate, greying George K. Large (Princeton '99; former country judge) went a huge new safe to hold the oil firm's records of incorporation. Up went the town's ratables as Standard was assessed $45,000,000 in personal property, paid...
...more twists than a propeller, but moves at about the same speed. Brad Reynolds (Randolph Scott) is thirtyish and already too old for the airlines. The Civil Aeronautics Authority gives him a chance to get younger men off the ground, try to teach them to stay up. One morning a scary youngster freezes the controls, then while Brad is righting the plane, gracefully bails out. Brad later finds him, somewhat battered, dangling from a tree over a canyon. In rescuing the boy he falls himself, breaks both legs. A lad who has never before been alone at the controls pilots...
...Donald Crisp, dominates the picture as singlehandedly as Elizabeth dominated England. For though slow-smiling, boyish Errol Flynn in a pair of seven-league boots will flutter more hearts than the Queen's, dramatically he leaves the impression that, in chopping off his head, Elizabeth is performing one of the more sensible acts of her reign...
...Department of Property and Supplies. By nightfall, thousands of miners were petitioning for Richard Mitchell's re-employment and denouncing Governor James, who lamely pleaded that St. John's son had known for two months that he was to be replaced. But State Treasurer F. Clair Ross, one of the few Democratic holdovers from ex-Governor George Earle's labor-minded regime, smartly hired Richard Mitchell on the evening of John Mitchell Day, put him to work as an auditor at $1,800 a year...
...One of the SFA's problems is persuading people that it is not a relief project. Allotted 1% of the appropriation for each new Federal building, it has adorned 553 of them with painting and sculpture at a cost of $841,000, is now decorating some 400 others. No longer is art restricted to the biggest buildings. Thanks to Government murals, many a small-town post office and courthouse is gay as Joseph's coat...