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...ears were pricked when the President skimmed the subject of inflation: "The Administration has the definite objective of raising commodity prices to such an extent that those who have borrowed money will, on the average, be able to repay that money in the same kind of dollar which they borrowed. . . . We seek to correct a wrong and not create another wrong in the opposite direction. . . . These powers will be used when, as and if it may be necessary to accomplish the purpose." President Roosevelt reported conditions "a little better than they were two months ago," with industry picking up. freight...
...lusty and spectacular. The decor of MGM's expert Cedric Gibbons, the direction of Sidney Franklin and the clever casting of Frank Morgan, who looks a little like Barrymore, for the role of Dr. Krug all help to make the picture a suave and ingratiating transcription, which should repay in prestige what it loses at the box office...
...Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (pronounced Burly), a short, thin, whispery professor of corporation law, into the R. F. C. as railroad credit manager. As special assistant to the R. F. C. board. Professor Berle will see that carriers get no more cash than they can reasonably be expected to repay. His standard of credit rating is expected to be a road's ability to write down its bonded debt as a means of reducing interest charges. Until the carriers' capital structures have been deflated, R. F. C. will take a hard-boiled stand against new loans. Director Jesse...
These higher courses well repay the men who have patiently endured the memory work of the first courses. From the factory-like regulations of the early work--where results must be produced in a certain time, and the student is ruled by limiting laboratory regulations, the step to the later work is most pleasant...
...solid successes, to be advertised in the March 25 issue: The Bulpington of Blup (Macmillan), The Kennel Murder Case (Scribner), Mutiny on the Bounty (Little, Brown), Forgive Us Our Trespasses (Houghton Mifflin). Each title will have to sell 2,000 copies (profit: 25? per volume) to make the advertisement repay its publisher...