Word: partials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partial glimpse of the testimony may serve to indicate why Mr. Wilkins feels as he apparently does...
This bill, then, will be greeted with much resentment, and it is possible that it will cause a split between the President and the Senate. All the measures which have brought about our partial recovery have been effected through the complete acquiescence of Congress, and at a time when these measures, good or bad, have reached the stage where the discontinuance of any part of them would jeopardize the welfare of the country, it is imperative that Congress agree with the President. The country will watch this new bill to see whether it will be added to the emergency powers...
Sergei Eisenstein's much disputed film is being shown at the Fine Arts Theatre in Boston for the first time. I can not see why the critics were so partial to the director in their reviews and so annoyed with Upton Sinclair who cut two hundred thousand feet of film to a length suitable for a feature picture. After viewing the film one is convinced that the original scenario remains intact, and that the only possible reason to reprove Mr. Sinclair would be that he made the film too short...
...Negro problem." For her and her readers the Negro is the Southern plantation darky, whom Southerners always represent as being a lovable, child-like creature, living as a happy dependent on a sympathetic white master. Race-conscious Negroes and Northern negrophiles consider Authoress Peterkin's gently glowing picture partial, incomplete, but readers in general fall under the charm of her affectionate sympathy. Photographer Doris Ulmann's share in Roll, Jordan, Roll is 70 masterly photo graphs of Negro types, scenes. With these pictures as text, Authoress Peterkin has written a rambling series of delightful sketches. Some of them...
Because no more than a temporary job could be done at the time, a subcommittee of the House Ways & Means Committee has been drafting all summer long more elaborate devices to make people pay income taxes. Last week a partial draft of those plans was made public. Certain it is that the draft will be altered, perhaps unrecognizably, to meet the needs of the budget as well as of practical politics. But equally certain is it that a new tax law will be enacted by Congress this session, and last week's announcement gave the first inkling...