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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political death struggle unequaled since the Civil War, brought about by Franklin Roosevelt's desire to insure the constitutionality of his future legislative program by adding sympathetic Justices to the bench. The excitement of the current court term will be different from that of the two previous ones, but no less noteworthy. Although Mr. Roosevelt's packing plan failed, this term finds the Court philosophically and politically realigned and slanted in a new direction. And the important cases likely to come to judgment this winter are largely social in implication. Concerned chiefly with the rights of newly-resurgent...
This debate marks a renewal of Crimson-Purple debating relationships. As in the case with all previous such meets between the two colleges, there will be a decision...
Victoria the Great (RKO Radio). Shaking from her pretty shoulders the garish costumes of two previous cinema roles-as Nell Gwyn and Peg Woffington -Britain's beloved Anna Neagle last week traced with pomp and piety Queen Victoria's long reign. Because the film is lengthy, because its subject is the most sanctified one in British history, awed critics detoured around its rough spots with wistful allusions to Helen Hayes and Victoria Regina, vaguely said that the picture, presenting almost precisely the same episodes as did Laurence Housman's play, was perhaps about as good...
...Steel's third quarter earnings were $30,617,638 compared to $36,173,682 for the previous quarter and $13,636,177 for the third quarter of 1936.* Said the corporation's statement: "Demand for steel products during July, August and September showed a gradual decline in volume each month.... Operations for the third quarter as measured by finished product output averaged 73.6% of total capacity, compared with 88.4% in the previous quarter and 63.6% in the third quarter of 1936.... In recent weeks a rather marked falling off in shipments to customers occurred, resulting in an October...
...CHUTE-Albert Halper-Viking ($2.50). This story of life in a big Chicago mail-order house is more powerful, more understanding, than Author Halpers previous novels (Union Square, The Foundry) but his ambition still surpasses his ability...