Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is very little acting except saying of lines and screaming. That one can forgive. But inasmuch as every third scene or so is comic relief, it is a little disappointing to find no comedy. Besides Ricardo Cortez and Mary Aster, there is a new girl in the picture named Kay Linaker. We wish that we could be as confident as Warner Brothers that she is "destined for stardom shortly...
...Morgenthau made a clean breast of U. S. financial expectations as he saw them until the end of fiscal 1937. In so doing he completely rewrote the budget presented by the President a week earlier. Allowing $2,000,000,000 for the Bonus, $2,000,000,000 for new relief appropriations (which the President did not estimate in his figures) and assuming that in place of AAA there will be a new law that will spend as much as AAA would have, the Morgenthau budget for 1937 would compare as follows with the Roosevelt budget: (000,000 - omitted) Roosevelt Morgenthau...
...coldness of his eye and the hostile tilt of his cigar, National Committeeman Eugene Talmadge of Georgia stood out like a skeleton at a feast. Ever since President Roosevelt removed Georgia's relief administration from his hands, Governor Talmadge has called himself a "Jeffersonian," as distinguished from a "Jacksonian." Democrat. Popping up in Washington, Gene Talmadge ostentatiously absented himself from the Jack son Day Dinner at the Mayflower Hotel but showed up at the Willard next morning just before Boss Farley made his rousing speech...
Within the year a consortium of New York banks & bankers gave President Gibson the job of liquidating a batch of neighborhood banks that had closed. In the same year President Gibson headed the New York Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee, which involved a certain amount of eating out of tinware (see cut, col. 1). And to him went Manhattan's old Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust, which was merged with Manufacturers after rumors threatened its existence. At that time Mr. Gibson swept out the portfolios of both banks, transferring assets with a dubious value of $30,000,000 to Huron...
...believe, as almost every one does that something should be done for the Farmers", said Mr. Saltonsfall, "but I was not in favor of the methods employed by the AAA. The Supreme court decision has served to clear the sir, I think." The problem of what form the Fram relief might take he considers a highly complicated question, and could offer no constructive suggestion at present...