Word: processed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main drawback to an inflation of the currency is the fact that it is a process difficult to control, and disastrous in its effects if it be carried too far. Examples of this are all too painfully presented by the events in the Confederacy toward the close of the Civil War, and by the complete collapse of the mark in Germany after the World War. Besides this danger, there is the fact that the present potential currency of the nation is not all in circulation. The banks have not issued all the money they are entitled to, simply because there...
...book that Mary Howard is in the process of finishing, the wife understands the plea of the other woman in love with her husband and blandly surrenders him, but when the ladies really meet under unusual circumstances in the country Claire Woodruff (Selena Royale) is very unsympathetic, and even the husband (Herbert Rawlinson) when confronted by both wife and mistress, male like chooses his wife, thereby being deserted by both. This is what Miss Crothers attempts to draw through three acts...
...Roosevelt explained his activities thus: "I'm going ahead through a careful process of preparing myself for the job. This is a period of intensive study. . . . As Al Smith used to say, I'm getting a lot in through the ears but I'm also getting a great deal in through the eyes as I have time to study...
...process of forced liquidation through foreclosure and bankruptcy sale of the assets of individual and corporate debtors who, through no fault of their own, are unable in the present emergency to provide for the payment of their debts is utterly destructive of the interests of debtor and creditor alike and if this process is allowed to take its usual course misery will be suffered by thousands without substantial gain to their creditors...
Problem: what is the proper deportment when one meets an enraged lion at one's elbow at a formal dance? Hollywood, the nation's mind, sets itself to solve this riddle in the current offering at the University, "Central Park," and in the process answers a thousand other equally important questions of deportment that Emily Post passed by. It takes some 17 corpses, an armored car with no end of gangsters, a lunatic, and a number of amiable and stupid minions of the law, but the answers are all there in the end. And so are Joan Blondell, the wise...