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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shadows. Among the early U. S. picture companies Pathe became important and prosperous, famed for its comedies, its newsreels. Its symbol was a crowing cock. Into fame the Pathe rooster crowed Harold Lloyd, Pearl White. In 1927 Pathe was reorganized, began to make feature pictures successfully on a small scale. Its principal assets were a library of film stories said to be the best in the business, and the services of three brilliant young actresses-Ann Harding, Constance Bennett, Helen Twelvetrees. Last week for $5,000,000 Radio-Keith-Orpheum, lusty and successful young cinema company sponsored by great Radio...
...steel companies promptly followed-their-leader. Indeed, steel ingot production last week was slowed down to 39% of capacity. With prices so low, business so dull, few steel companies are covering their dividends, many more are not even earning profits. At last week's new price-scale, profits will run $2 to $4 a ton higher. Thus unless the volume of steel business drops even lower, last week's price maneuver was decidedly bullish for steel companies. Confident were steelmen that the law of supply & demand will not work in their case. Rather, they contended that many...
...many respects Dr. Clark's ideas on charity and his repudiation of large-scale American philanthropy, which he compares to the dole, will attract most of the attention given to the book. But an historical study, in the first essay, of the idea that prosperity is based on slavery and Puritanism is equally worthy of consideration...
...ministers to cooperate in federations. The clergy "are afraid of the warm-hearted irresponsibility of their lay constituents-perhaps also of their own better natures." It was to ferret out the cause of denominational failure to cooperate that Mr. Douglass made his search into antipathies. Besides discovering the above scale of Protestant general aversions, he found that Protestants would just as soon marry Roman Catholics as Jews, but preferred Jewish or Catholic spouses to Mormons, atheists, Buddhists or Mohammedans. However, they would rather marry atheists than aliens...
...available and the chapel project must necessarily receive a new vitality. The known facts of the true situation are characteristically vague beyond the fact that the new edifice will occupy most of the space between Widener and Appleton chapel and that it is supposed to be built on a scale to "balance" the library...