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...Whenever the lone wolf, the unethical competitor, the reckless promoter, the Ishmael or Insull whose hand is against every man's, declines to join an end recognized as being for the public welfare and threatens to drag the industry back to a stage of anarchy, the government may properly be asked to apply restraint...
...cured and returned, threatens to take Marlene's child away. She is hounded down the scale until she gives up the child, flops in & out of a 15¢ flophouse, suddenly reappears as a toasted but disillusioned Paris diseuse. At this point her bony, impassive face, deep, hoarse voice, crazy- reckless look and swagger are unpleasant but impressive. Hardly the madonna type, she comes home for the ultimate pleasure of holding her child for a moment, decides to stay as her child's music box tinkles out the case for commonplace happiness. Good shot: a fake cabaret gorilla rocking formidably from...
...theme is unimportant, but the set- ting is grand. As in countless other plays, "Candida" for one, a beautiful young wife must choose between the new respectability, social idealism, and homey security, as against reckless emotional love. The lovely lady is Elena of the Aristocrats who has faced the revolution bravely and become the wife of a psychoanalyst, eminent in "Vienna's only remaining industry." This is not a marriage of love or understanding, just a practical marriage, and has been made miserable with specters and names from Elena's glamorous history. Then the relicts of the Hapsburg Court return...
...became optimistic. From optimism some of us went to overexpansion and from overexpansion to reckless speculation. . . . Then came retribution. . . . New blows rained upon us. ... The world-wide storm rapidly grew to hurricane force. . . . Most Gigantic Program. "We met the situation with the most gigantic program of economic defense and counterattack ever evolved in the history of the Republic. . . . Our measures have repelled these attacks of fear and panic. We have maintained the financial integrity of our government. ... As a nation we have paid every dollar demanded of us. ... We have provided methods and assurances that there shall be none...
...Spring Lake, N. J., James Hogg, vermin exterminator, was arrested for reckless driving by Chief Elwood Lutz, fined by Justice of the Peace John H. Young. Exterminator Hogg telephoned Justice Young, inquired whether he had any bedbugs, received a negative answer. Said James Hogg: "Well, you will have." When Justice Young went home he found a bottle on the porch from which hundreds of bedbugs were streaming into the house...