Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desk of Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, whom President Roosevelt lately made watchdog of all emergency as well as regular Government expenditures, lay last week warrants for $100,000,000 worth of Treasury disbursements to Federal Housing Corp. Comptroller McCarl, without whose signature no Government money may be spent, refused to countersign. To Secretary of the Interior Ickes, FHC president, he explained: FHC, set up under the National Industrial Recovery Act, was to be a permanent organization, whereas its parent agency was an emergency one. That did not look legal...
When Suzanne (Lilian Harvey) breaks a leg dancing, her rascally stage manager loses all interest in her welfare. A group of puppeteers take care of her and the scion (Gene Raymond) of the chief puppeteer falls in love with her. The rest of I Am Suzanne deals with Suzanne's uneasy feeling that Tony is really in love not with her but with a puppet portrait he has made of her. The mocking dances of his marionettes and her fiancé's dreamy affinity with them first confuse, then anger her. When her leg has mended enough...
...York last week Death, as it must to all creatures, came to the Bronx Zoo's female vampire bat, 16 weeks after Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars had brought her from Panama (TIME, Oct. 2). Three days later its 25-day-old baby died too, of indigestion and loneliness. That left the world without a single live vampire bat on exhibition...
...more sensible than most such chronicles. Flying Down to Rio starts with Belinda Rezende (Dolores Del Rio) sitting in a Miami cafe where a band leader (Gene Raymond) is making eyes at her. When he accepts her invitation to dance, his assistant (Fred Astaire) who pays less attention to music than to hoofing and joking with pretty Ginger Rogers remarks: "Hold your hats, boys.. Here...
Last week Newton Diehl Baker. Philip Fox La Follette, Charles Francis Adams, John Cowles, Roland Morris and 12 other potent members of the Council got together and, presumably on President Roosevelt's say-so, picked Raymond Bartlett Stevens to head the new agency. For the last six years Mr. Stevens has served as foreign adviser to little King Prajadhipok of Siam, whose country has an external debt of ?8,500,000. An able New Hampshire lawyer, Mr. Stevens entered Congress in 1913, ran for the Senate at the end of his first term, was defeated. Woodrow Wilson kept...