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...charm of Miss Hepburn. Set against the dream-like beauty of the lovely little Scottish village of Thrums the drama unrolls itself with absorbing simplicity and beauty. The new minister of the Auid Licht congregation (admirably played by John Beal) has a hard boat to row for these fiercely pious Scotsmen demand a strength and purity in their spiritual leader which few mortals would dare to assay. This little village is rocked by the industrial turmoil which shook all of Great Britain's industrial villages in in the thirties and forties of the last century--the weavers are pitted against...
Year ago Huey Long proposed that rhubarb and spinach be declared basic commodities, but it remained for Representative Lindsay Carter Warren to propose a "Potato Tax Act of 1935." It remained for pious Representative Ralph Owen Brewster (former Governor) of Maine to enounce that "Potatoes are the Forgotten Crop." It remained for William Edgar Borah, most famed member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to take himself to AAA's hearings on potato restriction and portentously declare "Idaho raises a very fine potato. I am not quite familiar with the plan Mr. Warren has offered...
Significance. Canada's Dole-hungry proletariat has just terrified Canada's rich, pious and Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett (a personal friend of King George) into turning his political coat, emerging as a New Deal radical (TIME, Jan. 14). Just how frightened were the Conservative leaders of National Government in London last week? They were not frightened. Neither was the average British Islander. In tradition, which Canada lacks, Britain is strong. Part of that tradition is that she is ruled by "The Families"; that even great pieces of Socialism like the Dole will be administered by gentlemen...
Bright in the pattern of New York's history have been the dozens of prima donnas who made news with every utterance, set fashions in food and dress, left vivid memories with every song they sang. Old men still live who remember pious Jenny Lind when she trilled in gaslit Castle Garden, a protégée of that amazing Yankee, Phineas T. Barnum. Adelina Patti was singing at the old Academy of Music on 14th Street when broughams first brought Vanderbilts and Astors to the shiny new doors of the Metropolitan Opera House...
...first twenty years of its existence Phelps Dodge Corp. sold cotton and tin. When in 1833 a brand new warehouse collapsed on the heads of his fusty clerks, pious old Anson G. Phelps reorganized the business, began selling lumber, iron, steel, insurance. Next Phelps Dodge acquired a patch of ground in Bisbee, Ariz, and began to dig. In 1906 it announced in all New York newspapers: "Owing to the great increase of our Copper and Railroad business in the West, we have been obliged to give up the selling of all metals except Copper...