Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Babes in Toyland (Hal Roach). With the notable exception of Walt Disney cartoons, fantasy is not a form of entertainment in which the cinema excels. Particularly in fantasy for children, there usually prevails a certain horrid condescension on the part of producers who, unwilling to risk inventing fantasies of their own, prefer to adapt classics. This fact makes it hard to believe that any adaptation of Victor Herbert's famed operetta would amount to more than a ridiculous calamity. Fortunately, Producer Hal Roach, well-versed in the art of gag comedies, saw fit to throw most of his original material...
CRIMSON representatives, and many others who have watched the team in its practices and games this season are likewise convinced that Harvard need not risk the dangers of "block-booking," to which it most certainly would be exposed if a new coaching staff were imported. The CRIMSON has no intention of acting as campaign manager for any coach who aspires to the vacant post. It speaks merely to express what appears to be the consensus of opinion among players and followers of the team...
Insurance v. Reserves- The European plan is based on the assumption that unemployment is an insurable risk, like death, fire and accident, which over a long range recurs with mathematical precision. The American plan advocates argue that there is no such mathematical certainty about unemployment, that it cannot, properly speaking, be insured against; that all men can do is save money ("create reserves") for the rainy day of unemployment and then spend it. The difference is that if unemployment can be insured against, the insurance fund can theoretically guarantee to provide relief for the unemployed no matter how long they...
Liberty League. Last week it did not appear, however, that the Republicans would dare risk a conservative campaign in 1936. If the Democratic Party should turn left, thus blocking the path to the formation of a progressive opposition, and if the Republicans refuse to take up the banner of conservatism, it is conceivable that a new party may arise by division of the Democrats. The leading conservatives in Washington today are Democrats. Outside Washington the leading conservative movement is the American Liberty League which has John W. Davis, Alfred E. Smith, Irénée du Pont, for directors...
...John then dwelt on the advantage to the State of having private capital assume the risk of maintaining in peacetime arsenals on which the State's very existence depends in time of war. When Major Attlee compared the armament traffic to the whiteslave traffic and insisted that at the very least the manufacture of munitions should be taken out of private hands and made a prerogative of government, Sir John Simon neatly beclouded the issue with a sneer, "Does the Right Honorable Member mean that privately-owned brothels are wrong but state-owned brothels right?" Finally and flatly...