Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Independence means self-dependence. . . . Great numbers of people have made the stimulating discovery that they can work for themselves. . . . The land! That is where our roots are. . . . No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. With one foot in industry and another foot in the land, human society is firmly balanced against most economic uncertainties. . . . Groups of employed men could rent farms for small sums and operate them on the cooperative plan [or] with several unemployed families. . . . The machine [and] the land . . . belong together; they cannot live apart; they must...
...with Sari Maritza, an actress who reached Hollywood before the picture reached Manhattan, in the leading role. Monte Carlo Madness, as anyone who has ever seen a cinema about Monte Carlo should guess, is no glum study of dementia praecox. The legend from which the plot was derived concerns the captain of a destroyer who squandered his payroll at the Casino gaming tables and threatened to shell the town if the money was not returned. When he got it back, he paid his crew and blew out his brains, but Monte Carlo Madness is a less sordid variation...
...subscriber will hereafter receive: 1) the Bureau's weekly pamphlets interpreting "current trends of government action" as they affect the business of the individual subscriber; 2) David Lawrence's Weekly, a pamphlet written by Publisher Lawrence who "will penetrate the maze of activities of government . . . plot the trends of legislative action and politics as they affect the business structure of the country . . . take you behind the scenes in Washington"; 3) service of obtaining promptly copies of Government documents, statistics, legal decisions etc., etc.; 4) the U. S. Daily unchanged. Publisher Lawrence explains that only new subscribers will...
...from the Socialist Soviet Republic, "Soil is Thirsty" bludgeons the great truths of the class war into the consciousness of the audience; the suffering Turkmen in Turkestan are rescued from their Capitalistic overlord by five young Russian engineers. With this simple salvation of the proletariat for a theme, the plot manages to create a blood-and-thunder milieu, filled with hurricanes, dynamiting, death, and a happy ending. The Turkmen are virtual slaves of the cruel heavy, a Bey with a sneer and black waxed mustachios; the Musselmen laboriously draw water from deep wells for the garden of fig-trees...
...Babby for family inspection. Joe's sister Cornelia is coming down from Hollywood to spend the weekend. Most important for Joe is a call from Monica, his secretary and truelove, that she is bringing out the McKelveys that afternoon. Maybe Joe will be able to sell McKelvey that plot of land on the canyon's top. If he cannot, he is bankrupt, ruined...