Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to its aid. Friends of the Court included the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Mountain States Beet Growers' Marketing Association, the National Beet Growers' Association offering briefs in defense of AAA. Hygrade Food Products, National Biscuit, P. Lorillard turned up as "friends'' in the person of John W. Davis (and associates) who offered a brief against AAA. These briefs were concerned with two tests of the AAAct which taxes processors to raise money to pay farmers to reduce output.* One of these, brought by eight Louisiana rice millers who claim processing taxes are illegal, will...
...explosives had been hidden there. Parliament opened quietly with the Lord High Chancellor, Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, reading the King's Speech of grieving George V. This began: "My Lords and Members of the House of Commons, I deeply regret I am not addressing you in person...
...Person (RKO), Ginger Rogers' first starring picture, presents her as an "agoraphobe."* A cinema star, she fears crowds as a result of having been mobbed during a personal appearance. Secluding herself with a psychiatrist, she goes out only at his urging, and then in heavy disguise. It is on one of her therapeutic excursions that Miss Rogers meets the nephew (George Brent) of a friend of the psychiatrist. After some involved negotiations, she accompanies Brent on his vacation at a mountain snuggery, the theory of all concerned being that in her ugly make-up the cinemactress would be safe...
Widow Leslie has long written a daily editorial for the News under her own name, and many a hoaxed reader sends Columnist Nancy Brown messages and gifts to hand to Editorial Writer Leslie. At 65 she is a small, plump person, shy, softspoken, white-haired. She belongs to the Unitarian Church, lives at No. 1224 Glynn Court, Detroit...
...detective stores have been lifted directly from Conan Doyle, to be used most effectively on the screen. There is the subtle trap inveigling the guilty man into betraying himself, the use of a dummy to draw fire from the villain's gun, the spiriting away of a threatened person under pretense of his death, and the complicated machine of destruction. In this picture the infernal device rivals the inventions of Rube Goldberg, for the ringing of a church bell--as innocent a phenomenon as you could hope to find--starts the train of deadly events...