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...eight more months in jail. The hatred and fear roused in French Tories by the prospect of Socialist Leon Blum's Government last week served thrifty Paris socialites as an excuse to cancel big weddings and balls "to avoid provoking the Reds." Wealthy children in Paris' swank Pare Monceau marched around chanting derisively: "Blum! Blum! Blum...
History. Government departments, notably that of Agriculture, have made many a dull, amateurish film to be shown to school children. To Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell's Resettlement Administration nearly a year ago went Cinema Critic Pare Lorentz (Judge, McCall's) with an idea: Let the U. S. Government, heretofore backward in using the cinema, make a really good picture of the history of the Great Plains, showing how part of it became a dread "Dust Bowl" and how the Resettlement Administration was trying to rehabilitate its farmers. Critic Lorentz sold his idea, was at once chosen to direct...
...Paris Promoter Dickson has staged tennis, hockey, concerts, wrestling, the circus, an indoor "lion hunt" with 100 lions, and a show called "The Jungle at Midnight," with denizens of the Pare de Vincennes Zoo under flood lights. When 300,000 people visited Dickson's Jungle in the first eight nights, the authorities decided it made the animals nervous, stopped the show. Promoter Dickson finds London crowds the most tractable in Europe, Paris crowds the most excitable. In the Palais des Sports, to prevent a recurrence of the wine bottle incident, a net can be lowered around the arena...
...banker declared last December that the U. S. was "running with the throttle chained wide open and the airbrake system removed from the train." On the other hand, the House of Morgan believes that excess reserves are by no means excessive, since a heavy outflow of gold would quickly pare them to more normal proportions. To Chairman Eccles the track looks clear as far as he can see. Moreover, he disagrees with Banker Aldrich about the air-brakes. As soon as he spies a red-signal around the Recovery bend, he can: 1) Double reserve requirements, a move which would...
...interest rates and resulting reduced operating earnings." Because both institutions had earned their dividends in the first half of this year, their announcements gave the over-the-counter bank-share market a bad turn for a few days. The fear that First National, the "Baker Bank," would pare its $25 quarterly payment, sent First National stock tumbling $135 per share to $1,680. Not until Guaranty Trust, First National and other Manhattan banks declared their usual dividends did the bank-share market shake out of its gloom...