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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer the stinging Harrison of yore, he yielded ground to them, even yielded to Huey Long who baited him as he would have baited ten years ago. Before the Senate rewrite was complete. Senator Harrison had agreed to accept amendments that would turn the House's bill to save $250,000,000 from tax leaks into an out-&-out revenue bill to raise $500,000,000 from U. S. taxpayers...
Last week sitting in his office Mr. Hopkins was deluged with objections from every State in the union, was visited by a protesting delegation claiming to represent 100,000 unemployed in Philadelphia, New York and other eastern cities. But Mr. Hopkins was pleased. Save for workers on a few special projects, he had fired his 4,000,000 CWA workers almost a month earlier than he had promised, he had reduced the Government's dole bill from some $70,000,000 a week (which it had been under the CWA) to the same amount per month-and there...
...Pascal, whom Villa hates, has killed little Madero, whom Villa loves. Villa borrows $7 from Sykes and starts for Mexico City with five friends and a hangover. This time he fights without regard for niceties. Prisoners of war he ties together and shoots down in lots of three, to save bullets. He administers a beating to Teresa del Castillo, sister of a haciendado who had supported Madero but refuses to support Villa. He takes Chihuahua by storm and executes General Pascal by smearing him with honey, feeding him to ants. He marches into Mexico City at the head...
...Save our schools...
While the desperate father is on the verge of committing suicide, the other members of the family go about their varied affairs unheeding his distress. Fay Bainter, as the mother, is particularly good. Her acting leaves little to be desired, save perhaps by those who would rather watch homely emotions play over a more beautiful countenance. Her particular preoccupation is going to Hollywood to direct the picture which a book she had written, had inspired...