Word: punish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate of more than $40,000,000 per day. Last week it was flowing back at about the same rate. Some stubborn hoarders, wise to the law, knew they had obtained their gold legally before March 6 and that the U. S. had no Constitutional power to punish them retroactively. Irenée du Pont & wife turned in at Wilmington a 20-year collection of gold pieces paid him for attending board meetings of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
...high time that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences adopted a Baum's Law to punish, with progressive severity, any further thefts of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel formula. Aside from this defect, Rome Express, by far the most successful effort yet imported from England, is a more than passable program picture. Conrad Veidt is one of the dankest villains ever to infest a wagonlit; Director Walter Forde gives you the feeling of a train, not with two reels of atmosphere shots like the ones Josef von Sternberg used in Shanghai Express but with a sharp...
...modern France some garrison commanders punish with two days in "clink" a poilu found playing with a Yo-Yo, consider it a menace to discipline. Modern Yo-Yoing was launched in London by Baron Beaverbrook's Conservative Evening Standard which coached its readers in endless Yo-Yo tricks: "loops." "break-ways," "skinning the cat," "three-leaf clovers" and "Bow Bells." Most dangerous Yo-Yo maneuver is "around the world," in which the spinning top gyrates about its thrower's head in a circle which alternately widens and contracts...
...NAMELESS CRIME-Walter S. Masterman-Button ($2). Scotland Yard spots, but does not punish, the murderer...
...White House chance when he turned down the Republican vice-presidential nomination which then went to Calvin Coolidge. His political and personal hatred of Herbert Hoover is proverbial. In November's campaign, he deserted his party, supported the Roosevelt New Deal. To suggestions that the G. O. P. punish him for disloyalty, he hotly retorted: "Talk of reading some of us out of the Republican Party is all poppycock. It's the other way around. ... If those managing and manipulating the Republican party don't stop their clamor and change their attitude we'll read them...