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...heat that finally sent Congressmen's rage sky-high was Columnist Raymond Clapper's remark: "People don't give a damn what the average Senator or Congressman says. The reason they don't care is that they know what you hear in Congress is 99% tripe, ignorance and demagoguery and not to be relied on." Protector of The Press. One of the abler men in Congress last week poured out the typical feelings of the better type of Congressmen: "You just can't haul off and indict Congress in general. You say this Congress...
...great many cities that could and would support such a Repertory organization, were it formed. The great difficulty that impedes such a plan is that the Shubert Brothers of Broadway control practically every weather-proof theatre east of the Mississippi, and would set the rent at a sky-high figure if they were not partial to the idea, which they haven't been in the past. There are some groups already participating in the permanent Repertory idea: Jasper Decter's Hedgerow Theatre outside of Philadelphia; the Michael Chekhov Players, established in Ridgefield, Conn,. but almost constantly on tour; the Seattle...
Another, guarding blonde Miss Lane in a sky-high Rockefeller Center office, earnestly observes: "I hope we can get rid of her soon. I promised to take my kid sister to the Philharmonic...
...plot, to blow up several munitions ships then at sea. But while no bombs were found on these vessels, the "Minnehaha" caught fire on the day designated by "Holt" and had to race madly for the nearest port to keep its cargo of cordite and high explosives from going sky-high...
...deserved a respectful ear. In the 1930s they outwitted, outsold and outearned most U.S. merchants. While Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward boosted combined sales from 1930's $600,000,000 to 1940's $1,219,000,000, department-store volume slumped 9%. While mail-order profits jumped sky-high many a department store plopped into receivership...