Word: partials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of emergency meetings. By President von Hindenburg's original decree, German banks must reopen fully for business this week. That would be releasing the bull's tail with a vengeance. A new decree was placed on Old Paul's desk, and promptly signed, continuing the partial closure of the banks indefinitely. Foreign exchange can be bought only through the Reichsbank. Penalties for violating the new banking laws include confiscation of property and ten-year jail sentences...
...when he resigned from Paramount where he had been getting $104,000 a year as assistant to Production Manager Ben P. Schulberg was this: mass production in the cinema is wrong. It produces inferior pictures and costs more than production in small units. Also, Depression has recently made exhibitors partial to independent products. Selznick-Milestone will make perhaps six pictures a year. If the company is a success, there will be other Selznick companies like...
...been overlooked in the cinema, which tells a plain and not particularly stirring case-history of a girl who misbehaves, reforms, reverts to misbehavior, then to reformation. Much of the action takes place in a small-town hotel where traveling salesmen are shown engaged in chores and recreation. Particularly partial to the latter is an aged, bald-headed casket vendor (Guy Kibbee). He chuckles quietly when a lady drinks herself unconscious, employs the absurd severity of inebriation in telling the heroine that there is nothing worth crying about...
...vest and full dhoti [three-foot-wide loin cloth]. My hearers wore only a strip of cloth about four inches wide. I saw that where my clothing uttered only a partial truth of the poverty of India, these millions, compulsorily naked save for their narrow langotis, gave through their bare limbs the starkest truth...
...including Russia. Before it was formulated M. Litvinov proposed a pact of "total disarmament" among all nations (TIME, Dec. 12, 1927). He was called a trickster. Russia, it was said, would only pretend to disarm under such a pact. Next year M. Litvinov was back with a plan for "partial disarmament" by all nations (TIME, April 2, 1928). Again he was sat upon, sneered...