Word: rapidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rapid City, S. Dak. Chairman Cooke indulged in some self-satisfying hindsight: "If a program had been placed in effect 25 years ago this present drought would have been felt much less...
...Manner. Two unique fictional devices, in addition to the biographies of famed individuals, interrupt the stories of these people in their rapid rises and catastrophic falls. One is the Newsreel, an effective muddle of headlines, fragments of speeches, news stories, popular songs. Each about a page long, they serve to fix the time of the action as well as to suggest the general moral and intellectual climate of the U. S. during the period. Thus the Newsreel that follows a chapter telling of Margo Dowling's miserable marriage includes a song that was popular at the moment, headline reference...
...however, highly genial, rapid and unimportant melodrama, laid mostly on a train, dealing with the efforts of Duke Benson (Douglas Fowley), a public enemy with a national rating, to collect a sweepstakes prize. An insouciant G-Man (Brian Donlevy) traps him by publishing an advertisement announcing that someone else has won the prize and is about to sell the ticket. Before the trap is sprung, Benson has been seen shooting a train conductor (also a G-Man) and rousing the jealousy of his girl Jeanie (Isabel Jewell) with his attentions to Anne (Gloria Stuart). The cast is made...
...Government of shambling, whiskery Léon Blum had more than Bastille Day speeches for the French voters last week. In rapid succession it pushed through the Chamber of Deputies two bills destined to change drastically the face of French politics...
...years ago Steelman Millsop marched into the office of Steelman Weir, demanded a salesman's job at a fancy figure. Mr. Weir laughed. But the young man's rapid-fire self-sales-talk continued until Steelman Weir cried: "You've sold yourself to me." Following week, the new Weirton salesman brought in a $1,000,000 order. On the road for the next few years, he assiduously read Gideon Bibles in hotels, sold so much steel that in 1929 he was made assistant sales manager, later assistant to the president, finally vice president. Forthright, aggressive Mr. Millsop...