Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican New York Herald Tribune's make-up editor obeyed the President's injunction, but to most of the U. S. press, Franklin Roosevelt's remarks about the U. S. seemed considerably more pertinent than David's about a citizen of Zion. They were a review of his first five years in office, a highly metaphorical explanation of administrative policies in terms of "the old ship of State." Since March 4, 1933, the President said, enormous gains had been made toward some of his goals, more gradual gains toward others. The goals in any case remained...
Sulphonated castor oil, the sodium alkyl sulphates, and the sodium salts of sulphonated alkyl naphthalenes are "wetting agents." As explained last week in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Review, wetting agents reduce the surface tension of water (which makes it contract into drops), thus enable it to penetrate and soak water-resistant substances. Wetting agents are now used in laundries, in dyeing and tanning, in medicine (increasing the efficacy of antiseptic solutions), in tooth paste, in metalworking...
...feature which I have just waded through--an operatic affair dubbed "Romance in the Dark," which has somewhat to do with two Johns called Boles and Barrymore and a Gladys whose last handle is Swarthout. I make a note that I will give that one the bird in my review. Notwithstanding, almost at once comes along a beer baron who is none other than that grand little gee, Edward G. Robinson. I start to take notice; this Mr. Robinson has got the stuff, I decide. The story is a killer. In several ways it is a killer. First...
...member of the Law Review told investigators that his organization had once offered $100 to the young publication but has since refrained from payment. He cited the achievement of the yearbook men in putting charges on term bills, something the Review has not been able to do during its 50 years of existence...
...familiarize new Commissioners Jerome Frank and John Hanes with a two-and-a-half-year-old Wall Street investigation upon which a decision appeared near at hand, SEC held a review of the charges that White, Weld & Co. manipulated the stock of A. 0. Smith Corp...