Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...borrow money for gas to drive home. When they came to file their joint income tax return for 1933, Eugene remembered to deduct the $1,200 he had lost at chemin de fer, Vina the $300 she lost at roulette. Under the Revenue Act of 1934 this posed the problem as to whether the Delmars had undertaken their gambling for recreation or profit. Called before the Board of Tax Appeals, chunky Eugene insisted he had gambled for profit, to prove his experience testified that in two years in the Army his dice had netted him $2,000. Vina...
Women Are Like That (Warner Bros.) dawdles drearily with the problem of getting Actor Pat O'Brien off a Scotch-&-soda diet and back into the advertising game. Droopy Actress Kay Francis models a few notable Orry-Kelly costumes, drops innumerable...
...minutes was the actual birth of a baby. Medical groups from the American Medical Association down endorsed the film, and its serious purpose: the reduction of sickness and death among mothers and offspring. Last week The Birth of a Baby was drawing crowds in Minnesota, but the problem of getting the picture past squeamish local censors had delayed its showing in many States, notably New York. At the suggestion of the film's producers, LIFE reproduced 35 pictures from the cinema. The magazine notified its 650,000 subscribers in advance, so that they could decide whether...
...jalopies. Last month the automobile industry got together National Used Car Exchange Week. This got rid of some 60,000 used cars, but dealers' lots are still glutted. On Franklin Roosevelt's desk last week lay the results of a Federal survey of dealer opinions on the problem, most of them advocating some sort of scrapping program with Federal funds or sponsorship...
...present there is a committee of representatives from the universities and ball clubs investigating the problem of sponsored college ball-players with a report forthcoming next year. With demand for new talent at such a high premium, the big leagues are all indulging in this practice with the philosophy, ably expressed by Collins, "If we don't get him, 101 others will be after...