Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Something Gay (by Adelaide Heilbron; Shuberts, producers) is something, but not gay. It tells the tale of a wife who sets out to reform an erring husband by the time-honored method of flirting with another man, finds the other man more attractive than the husband, runs away with him. And it represents Tallulah Bankhead's third time at bat this season (previous plays: Dark Victory, Rain). While Something Gay affords Miss Bankhead ample opportunity to cuss and cuddle, its dialog is so low-pressure, its scheme so trivial that critics sorrowfully had to credit her with another strikeout...
...Lawrence Lowell was the lecturer has the course possessed any real value for those whose major concern is to grasp the fundamentals of modern government and a few significant principals of political theory. To be sure, the course has been reorganized this year, but the emphasis has been on reform of material alone, not of lecturing...
...hours before the President went on the air, the National Association of Manufacturers, convening in Washington, issued a pronunciamento declaring that the threat of New Deal reform measures was all that blocked the pent-up surge of recovery. With a last-minute addition to his speech, President Roosevelt at once delivered a bold reply, outlined his "must" program of legislation, asked the electorate to help him prod Congress to action. Items...
...bull market, and last week at the American Chemical Society meeting in Manhattan the chemical industry took its turn at sounding off, incidentally setting new records for grandiose promises of what business could do if the Government would let it alone. Flaying the Administration for mixing Recovery with Reform, President William B. Bell of American Cyanamid Co. cried: "Recovery lies within easy reach. Already accumulated demands in the durable goods industries approximate $85,000,000,000. That is sufficient, when added to the ordinary consumer demands of the country, to re-employ...
British diplomacy. Woodrow Wilson was elected President in 1912 on a platform of domestic reform; the Democrats knew little and cared less about Europe. "It would be the irony of Fate." said Wilson, "if my Administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs." When "Colonel'' Edward Mandell House, self-constituted peace apostle, went to Europe in the spring of 1914 with Wilson's unofficial blessing, he soon suspected that .Europe was in a dangerous state but it took him a long time to realize that European diplomacy was not exactly aboveboard. After the War began Col. House...