Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where members are allowed $5,000 per year to staff their offices produced results last week. A resolution by North Carolina's Warren to open the April payroll to public inspection was adopted. This was brought about largely by a series of crusading dispatches by inquisitive United Pressman Raymond Clapper, whose digs and jabs made relative-hiring Congressmen blush. The average House member who pays his wife, son or daughter to clerk for him wrathfully refuses to discuss publicly the details of the arrangement. Newsmen had to puzzle out the House's payroll for April by themselves. They...
...romance, adventure, slapstick and satire on industry, prisons, society, the Machine Age and love. Amazingly, the film makes brilliant sense in every department, even to audiences ignorant of French. The picture opens with long rows of convicts tapping away at wooden toy horses. Two friends plan an escape. Louis (Raymond Cordy) succeeds, knocks over a bicyclist and rides victoriously into the finish of a bicycle race. He progressively masters burgher manners and the industrial system, becomes owner of a phonograph shop, then a department store, then a vast phonograph factory, in which mass production and prison methods are satirically interlined...
Director Clair keeps his characters, action and dialog as natural and human as possible. But the settings, the story, the mood of the direction, are stylized to achieve a dream quality. Director Clair uses anonymities for his leads; Actor Raymond Cordy was a taxi-driver a year ago. Admiration for Charlie Chaplin is shown in mob scenes, chases and stampedes which follow Chaplin's principles of dance and pantomime. Director Clair, 30, was until 1926 a newspaperman whose novel, Adams, a story of Charlie Chaplin, had some success. He joined a Paris experimental art group specializing in cinema, produced...
...Woodrow Wilson's Ambassador to Japan, president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and member of the advisory board of Princeton's school of public and international affairs; Walter Ewing Hope (1901), long an able, devoted Princeton trustee, lately (1929-31) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Lawyer Raymond Elaine Fosdick (1905) of Manhattan (brother of Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick...
Ballots for the Student Council elections of the Classes of 1933 and 1934 are being placed in the mails this morning, with 19 Juniors and 17 Sophomores on the respective lists of nominees. By a petition of 35 men, the name of Harold Raymond Woodard '33, of Wilmington, Delaware, has been added to the nomination list of the Junior Class...