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...Universal's Buck Jones. Since entering cinema, he has made 74 serials and features. A onetime rodeo performer, he lives on his San Fernando Valley ranch with his wife, whom he married on horseback, when they were both performing in a Wild West Show. Onetime cavalryman, aviator, trick-roper and auto-mechanic, Buck Jones made his cinema debut as an extra in 1917, became a major Fox star, at $2,500 a week. He now owns four horses, four dogs, three expensive cars, supports an So-piece band to represent his "Buck Jones Rangers' a national organization...
Harry Hopkins, who has to administer Relief; Henry Morgenthau Jr., who has to pay for it; Messrs. Richberg, Roper, Ickes, Wallace and Franklin Roosevelt, who hope that it will stimulate recovery, are all interested in the dole. So, too, last week was the Census Bureau. Its Dr. Samuel A. Stouffer, on leave from the University of Wisconsin, announced the results of a three-year investigation in Milwaukee into the effect of the dole upon the birthrate. He counted the newborn children of 11,400 families, half on relief, half selfsupporting, but both in similar walks of life. Since some families...
...following rôles: Mrs. Cordell Hull, a gypsy; Mrs. Homer Cummings, a Spanish matron; Mrs. Claude Swanson, a Dutch girl; Madam Secretary Perkins, a braintruster (cap & gown); Mrs. Donald Richberg, "The Mystery of the New Deal'' (an alphabet-spangled dress); Mrs. Henry Wallace, a Yugoslav peasant; Mrs. Daniel Roper, a court lady of the Second Empire; Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., a court lady of the 18th Century; Mrs. George Dern, one of the wives of Brigham Young; Anna Roosevelt Dall, The Devil...
...such congresses favor: a balanced budget, the gold standard, a modified NRA, an end to government competition with business. But genuine economic articulation came not from the practicing-economists who were delegates to the Congress but from the practicing politicians of the New Deal?Daniel Roper, Raymond Moley; Donald Richberg...
...Secretary of Commerce deliver a post-election radio address to reassure business, induce it to speed recovery. Significant Roper passages...