Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bent on learning all. Ten years later he emerged as the committee's chairman ready to make his maiden speech before the House. What he had to say on the Federal Reserve bill (then called the Owen-Glass measure) filled 14 newspaper columns. Thereafter he was silent for 30 months. This year in the Senate, where he is now recognized as the ablest legislator on banking matters, he talked for less than five newspaper columns. His words drawled out of the right corner of his severe mouth, his lips curling up into an expression of chronic ill humor. (Woodrow...
Just before Christmas silent-footed persons posted the above notice on the door of Japan-born Alvin K. Aurell, son of a Kansas-born missionary, today branch manager in Yokohama for Singer Sewing Machine Co. Mr. Aurell was not exactly alarmed. Singer's labor troubles in Japan began more than a year ago, caused the company to close its Osaka and Kobe branches last November. Last week Manager Aurell sat calmly eating his lunch when a large motor truck drove up to his branch, dumped a load of cordwood in front of the door...
...away Esparto's Bank of Esparto, struck down the two biggest independent banks in the State Capital, the California National of Sacramento and the California Trust & Savings. Closing of the two Sacramento institutions tied up $34,000,000 in 9,000 commercial accounts, 36,000 savings accounts. Cause: silent runs. Airplanes and armored cars with $13,000,000 in cash roared out of San Francisco to forestall possible runs on other local banks & branches...
While for various reasons the talking pictures have never equalled either the dramatic or financial successes of their silent predecessors. "Cavalcade" has moments that send one back to "What Price Glory" or "The Covered Wagon" for sequences equally powerful. There is the scene in the London theatre during the Boer War. Some of those in the audience have sons or husbands "dying by inches" in Mafeking while a relief force is on its way in an attempt to raise the seige. The ballet and chorus are reaching their height when the manager stumbles out onto the stage and stops...
...clock tonight in the large Common Room of the Freshman Union the 1936 Union Committee will sponsor its initial motion picture night for the first year men, following a successful precedent set by the class of 1935. "The Floorwalker" one of Charles Chaplin's outstanding triumphs of the silent screen and the "Olympic Games of 1932," two reels of sporting films taken at Los Angeles during last summer, are the headliners on the evening's program...