Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Court, in a 6-to-2 decision (Justice Sutherland again not voting) made prudent investment v. reproduction cost nearer to an open question than it has been for 40 years by remanding the case to District Court for further evidence. Chief Justice Hughes's majority opinion declared: "The main issue in this litigation is whether the rates as fixed by the commission's order are confiscatory." At what looked to him less like a decision than a flipflop of indecision, dissenting Justice Pierce Butler spoke a tart word: "Our decisions ought to be sufficiently definite...
Most memorable shot in either reel is one taken in burning Nanking before the cameramen boarded the Panay. It shows a Chinese woman, one child in her arms, another tugging at her from behind, squatting beside a corpse, her crinkle-faced, open-mouthed misery oblivious of the camera as again & again she picks up and drops the dead hand of her husband...
...purples, given an effect of great distance by the sharp, tiny black shadows of cabins in a valley foreground. The Golden Tree, one of the largest, best-designed canvases, showed Mrs. Poor (Novelist Bessie Breuer) in a brown dress and bright green bandanna, engrossed in typescript at an open window ablaze with yellow autumn foliage...
...love of lighting effects and studio magic (see cut) seemed to them stagy. Among these photographers were Berenice Abbott. Edward Weston, Paul Strand. Ralph Steiner and Walker Evans. The virtue of photography, Evans recalled, lay in the "difference between a quaint evocation of the past and an open window looking straight down a stack of decades...
Pneumatic's troubles are now labor troubles. Its 200-odd workmen work only in postoffices. but are private employes, as such are not allowed to touch mail. They can do no more than receive, dispatch and open the lids of the greasy carriers for the postal employes. Their wages are the same as Government postal laborers-about $32 weekly-but their week is 60 hours instead of 40 hours. This, says the company's Vice President George J. Murray, is not what "President Roosevelt believes workmen should have." Only difficulty is that...