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Leighton and Bloch's prize-winning comedy "Spring Again" finally brings the veteran C. Aubrey Smith back to the stage; where he belongs. Long typed by Hollywood as the old-school tie and "all that sort of rot" kind of Victorian Englishman, Smith finds himself in his own element as the lovable old American gentleman, Halstead Carter. An able supporting cast, headed by Grace George and Ann Andrews, and the excellent direction of Guthric McClintic combine to fashion an enjoyable play despite the handicap of an old and unwieldy plot...
...evening last fortnight Governor John Moses broadcast a desperate message to North Dakota's citizens. For want of harvest hands, one of the lushest crops in the State's history-millions of bushels of wheat and potatoes and tons of sugar beets-might rot in the fields...
...while, the young gallant sailors and marines and soldiers are dying in the Pacific, and in Ireland the boys wait with the realization that they may be next. And we in the outposts who feel guilty because we are so far from the actual fighting, we sit and rot in stinking, malarial jungles and have time to think-and my mind becomes corroded with what I read. Those boys who are about to die, those who may be maimed, those who may live a lingering death with tropical disease, they ask so little. They will fight...
...country behind him to the man, gave the solons of Capitol Hill three weeks to pass a price-and-wage control bill. Two of the three weeks have passed, and Congress gets farther from its objective with each hour of debate. Party discipline suffers from election-year dry rot, and the farm-bloc pressure group has lined up the boys from the corn and cotton states with perfect precision...
...result of an extraordinarily successful plan to distribute surplus commodities (technically: "gluts"). The Department of Agriculture asks patriotic citizens, through their more than 500,000 U.S. grocers, to buy Victory Specials. Thus the grocers sell immediately, in peak seasons at good prices, the superabundant harvests that would otherwise rot on the ground, or sell for less than cost...