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...which the hero is an egocentric murderer and in which the action consists of his efforts to conceal one brutal crime while preparing for another, comes under the head of a daring cinematic experiment. Any picture in which Robert Montgomery, whose previous contribution to the screen has been a seven-year marathon of ingenuous charm, gives a first-rate performance in a difficult role, rates as at least a major surprise. Night Must Fall, adapted from the play which Emlyn Williams wrote and acted for a year in London and two months in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 12), scores on both...
...hauled into court back in the trust-busting days of Roosevelt I. The Federal Trade Commission had it on the carpet in 1917 and again in 1919. Three years later both the Trade Commission and the Department of Justice looked into the company's purchase of a fabricating competitor. Later that year the Trade Commission started an investigation of the cooking utensil industry, which turned into a seven-year Alcoa probe. At the request of the Senate in 1926 the Department of Justice investigated to see if the company was living up to the 1912 consent decree. Alcoa affairs...
...head of the Nicaraguan National Guard, created and trained by U. S. Marines during the seven-year U. S. occupation, Rebel Somoza last June virtually seized control of Nicaragua (TIME, June 8 et seq.). He forced Liberal President Juan Bautista Sacasa to quit before his term had expired, made it necessary for Congress to appoint Dr. Carlos Brenes Jarquin Provisional President to fill...
...plainer boom portent has been seen than the recent upward surge in prices, Moody's commodity index having risen 20% in the past six months. Wheat at $1.25 per bu. last week was at a six-year high, cocoa at 11¼? per Ib. at a seven-year high, rubber at 19? per Ib. at a seven-year-high...
What Educator Hutchins, if given a free hand, would do to schools & schoolmen appears partly from his seven-year record at Chicago, where with one stroke he scrapped most of the old departmental di visions, realigned them, cut the number of budgets from 72 to twelve, offered to put smart youngsters through their academic paces as fast as they were able to go. To all U. S. colleges, according to his book, Educator Hutchins would do a great deal more...