Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Federal officials interested in her job of consumer protection. Net impression about her job was that, for the moment, its functions will be delightfully vague. Agriculturist Chester C. Davis got a capable assistant, Paul Porter of CBS, publicly did little else. Railroader Ralph Budd (transportation) was heard to remark that he faced only one problem: an excess of facilities. Labor Overseer Sidney Hillman was still ill. Fulltime U. S. officials who are to share his job (mobilizing trained man power where it is needed) buzzed ahead without him on plans to train 1,000.000 civilians, find immediately needed craftsmen...
...picture, and thought of Elsie Janis. They also ran into unexpected opposition. In 1939 war did not seem as much fun to Actress Janis as in 1917. She agreed to play in a war picture on condition that she approved the script and that she be permitted to remark from time to time during the film that war is gruesome. She even objected when Director John Auer told her how to remark...
...scripts, Irna carefully abides by the cardinal plot rule of soap opera: Get your females behind the eight ball and keep them there. Irna is assisted in her work by two secretaries and a pair of literary Girl Fridays. She dictates all her material, frequently has an impassioned male remark to his sweetheart that he is happy "to have contacted her." To make sure she is right on legal and medical matters, Irna retains a lawyer and a pair of doctors. She has plunked most of her cash into annuities...
...horse up to last week was still holding its own. The Chief of Cavalry (which includes the Army's only mechanized brigade) was still a horseman (Major General John K. Kerr), who gets the heaves when he has to think about gasoline engines. General Wesson's offhand remark told more than he knew about the attitudes which underlie, enmesh, explain the Army and Navy...
...upon her. Jimmie Cagney is in there demonstrating that he is probably the best all around swash-buckler in the flickers--that in spite of his five foot four or so. And there is also an amazingly good script. The dialogue moves swiftly, with every now and then a remark which actually bears repeating the next time you wish to appear as a hot fox. Most of the cracks attest to the increasing senility of the Hays Office: some of them are downright shocking...