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Speaker Garner's speech was prolix. It reeked with the banalities of the politician. It brought forth no new facts or arguments. It was, by no stretch of the imagination, an historic oration. But it did have one great quality?earnestness?and with that alone the Speaker was able to sweep the House back to order and action. The Ways & Means Committee hastily evolved a new set of tax schemes to fill the void left by the Sales Tax. Leaders of the late insurgency fell over themselves to pledge support to this substitute program. United by the Garner speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: House Jugglers | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

Symphony of Six Million (RKO). The warm, prolix emotion which Fannie Hurst put into her story about a young Jewish doctor on Manhattan's East Side is strongly translated in this picture. Felix (Ricardo Cortez), humbly set up with a backroom for an office, finds few paying patients. He has long hard hours at a neighborhood clinic. It is his idea of happiness, however, to know that he is relieving a little the suffering he has seen everywhere about him since childhood. His fame but not his wealth grows until, realizing a debt to his family, he becomes a fashionable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...nick of time a millionaire's son kills Mrs. Simon, the erring wife. Lawyer Simon gets renewed faith in life and no little budding interest in his faithful secretary. Actor Muni turns in an extraordinary characterization. More than 20 mummers do their best. But Counsellor-at-Law remains prolix, unsifted, the work of a painstaking realist who refuses to trade significance for well-observed irrelevancies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...lectures, though fuller and more prolix, are scarcely more complete or illuminating than the notes. They are verbose and their rambling rhetoric, effective as it may have been to the ears of an audience, when read in silence rings hollow...

Author: By P. G. Hoffman, | Title: The Great Romantic in the Role of Critic | 5/6/1931 | See Source »

...letters obtained by his undercover men, one typed on the stationery of Amtorg, others with Moscow letterheads. Impartial observers wondered if here was another "Zinoviev Letter," like that which rocked British politics in 1924 and upset the first MacDonald Cabinet after it had recognized the Soviet Government. Crudely phrased, prolix, roundabout, the letters arrive awkwardly at these points: 1) One "Feodor" of Moscow writes to one "G. Grafpen," ordering him to go to "Seattle in the State of Washington," conferring on him a "mandate" respecting "illegal work," and continuing: "Between the 15th and 26th of March [1930] you will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Red Letters | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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