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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another man's wife with the weakness of any love-stricken being, their trust in him is shattered. That they should feel thus seems only natural, but the picture tries to make the situation highly dramatic. Does Parnell betray Ireland or Ireland Parnell? That is the question. The result is a hopelessly wishy-washy conflict between mass admiration and the illegal love of a party champion. With both sides in a deadlock, the script solves its problems by killing off Mr. Gable that Ireland may profit from his plight...
...month by an enterprising amateur, a young woman who concealed her small camera in her handbag, cutting a hole through which the lens peeped, re sembling an ornament. She practiced shooting from the hip, without using the camera's finder which was inside the purse, before achieving this result...
...result of this ignorance and indifference is the lack of resistance of even well-educated persons to various forms of propaganda which would have them conceive 'Americanism' in terms of class, party, sectional, racial, or religious affiliations," says the committee...
...Jaffe of Brooklyn's Public School No. 150 wanted to say singer, hanger, longing, banging, clingingly, his tongue betrayed him. So New York's Board of Examiners in 1934 unanimously rejected his application for a principal's license. Last week Teacher Jaffe, still awaiting the result of an appeal to the city's Board of Superintendents, filed another appeal with State Commissioner of Education Frank Pierrepont Graves. Although statistically Teacher Jaffe has one chance in 30 of persuading Commissioner Graves to interfere, his action moved the Board to consider how many and what kind of words...
...result of the Depression dilemma faced by policyholders was a large increase in the clientele of independent insurance counselors, who work for fees, not commissions. Life companies are inclined to regard all insurance counselors as "twisters," people who persuade a policyholder to cancel a contract in one company in order to reap the commission on the sale of a new contract in another. Calvin Coolidge learned that the term could not be applied indiscriminately after a St. Louis counselor sued him and New York Life for $100,000 damages. Mr. Coolidge, then a New York Life director, had denned...