Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hill deserted newspaper work to edit Fox news-reels, but the Sun wooed him back in 1927. In 1932 radio was looking for newspapermen who had firm, friendly voices in addition to rich experience in reporting, in travel, and in simplifying world events. They found Edwin C. Hill, whos sought no radio news scoops but brought to his audiences the "human side of the news." For along time his voice boomed out for Hearts's newsreel. Just as Hearst took his name from Hearst Metrotone news, Mr. Hill voluntarily left the employ of the Lord of San Simeon...
Saddest of all was Louisville, Ky. which has virtually no hills. Three-fourths of the city, at flood crest, was inundated. Its business and residential districts alike were in water, its Negro shanties and mansions of the rich. Its electricity was off, its power-station partly submerged in the yellow flood. Over 230,000 Louisville people were homeless, at least 200 dead (no official figures), few of them by drowning, most from exposure. Property loss was estimated...
...river channel, for the subsoil would give way under the pressure, if not the levee itself. Hence when big floods occurred the Army planned to let the river use floodways over the lowlands, to let say 20% of the alluvial plain be submerged in order to protect the rich lands of the other...
...shadowing of the home-day and night-by a corps of newspaper men, making contact difficult. . . . The incessant trailing of Dr. Mattson [father] on his visits around the city, by these same newspaper men. . . . Unwarranted and untruthful emphasis on the words "mansion" and "rich." . . . Daily radio broadcasts by individuals who drew from their imaginations. . . . The publication by some newspapers of the alleged ransom note secured improperly, in all probability through bribery...
...sustain an old story that had no business being converted into a movie in the first place. But to condemn the picture's direction and plot is not an deprecate either the acting of its stars or the Impressive Technicolor in which it is filmed. Marlene Dietrich as a rich adventuress and Charles Boyer as a renegade monk give performances that one can appreciate without an adequate story, and the picture's coloring guarantee it the box-office success it would not receive had it been produced in the customary black and white. Technicolor is both the strength and weakness...