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Charles Laughton gives us Captain Bligh, an iron-willed flend running amuck at sea, where reason is powerless to restrain him. In spite of his round, boyish face, bestial cruelty disguised as lawful discipline seems to be Laughton's forte. This was demonstrated in "Les Miserables" as well as in the present picture. Those thick lips and pug nose of his are becoming the cinematic symbol of brutality...
...President named eight men to sit on the National Bituminous Coal Commission and Bituminous Coal Labor Board, shortly before a coal strike they were powerless to prevent broke (see p. 14). ¶Turning in his commission as Chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, Joseph Patrick Kennedy of Boston prepared to sail with his wife to put one of their sons in the London School of Economics, a daughter in a Paris convent. He said he was "out of politics . . . for the rest of my natural life." On the President's say-so, the other SECommissioners elected as Chairman Kennedy...
...good-natured man, with a shrewd tongue and no worries in his head, who likes to sit convivially in his office, or go to a baseball game with a few chosen friends. To Washington wiseacres, however, he is recognized and respected as a real political power in a politically powerless office...
England was in top form, and Farrell, the Yale goalie, was completely powerless to stop his barrage of six goals. Taylor was the only one who functioned well for the Elis, and he led the Yale attack, netting two goals. Frank Bosworth and Roland were the only other Crimson stickmen to score...
Yard Police Powerless...