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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much of a he-man's job as pinchhitting for Babe Ruth. In the current cinema lithe, lanky Errol Flynn hits no home run. but scores a clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic Actor Flynn performs for everybody else. A head-thumping, sword-swishing, bow-twanging technicolor attempt to foreshorten the popular episodes of the Soo-year-old saga into the perspective of a single connected story. Robin Hood 1938 makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Eloped. Catherine Harrison, 28, daughter of Mississippi's Senator Byron Patton ("Pat") Harrison; and Dr. Irvin Samuel Miller, 35, of Colton, Calif. "Delightfully flabbergasted" was Pat Harrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Also offered is "Women Are Like That," with Kay Francis and Pat O'Brien. The thirty-odd gowns provided for Miss Francis by Orry-Kelly do not compensate for the almost total lack of plot, direction, and acting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/7/1938 | See Source »

Conference. Byrnes Committee report was issued at precisely the moment when this recommendation was sure to have maximum effect. House & Senate committees-the latter headed by Senator Pat Harrison, whom Senator Byrnes is supposed to have persuaded to vote for the Reorganization Bill last month-had been deadlocked over the tax bill for a week. Cause of the deadlock: Pat Harrison's Senate Committee was adamant about eliminating the undistributed profits tax entirely, modifying capital gains levies almost out of sight; Bob Doughton's House Committee was equally adamant about saving the Administration's face by preserving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...President to address a message to a Congressional conference committee is unconventional, if not utterly unprecedented. Precedents mean nothing to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. To Pat Harrison and Bob Doughton, chairmen respectively of Senate Finance and House Ways & Means Committees, members of which were starting the ticklish job of compromising between the two tax bills passed by their respective chambers, he dispatched a 1,000-word letter, recommending in effect that the conference adopt the House bill which, unlike the Senate's, retains at least a portion of the Administration's pet undistributed profits and capital gains tax. Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Letter | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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