Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ringwise cinemaddicts will detect interesting similarities to the careers of two famed contemporary fisticuffers: Gene Tunney and Max Baer. Like Baer, the hero of The Crowd Roars kills an adversary in the ring. Like Tunney, he reads the classics, speaks careful English and falls in love with a socialite. Smooth direction by Richard Thorpe and a tightly integrated narrative, for which major credit goes to Screenwriter George Bruce, weld these and the rest of the paraphernalia of all fight films-bigshot gamblers, fight fixers, snarling reporters-into racy, raucous entertainment, as insignificant and as lively as tomorrow's sports...
...smooth-running in Mr. Ickes' pump house, however. With two mayors at opposite ends of the land he was having trouble. Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco had only with difficulty been persuaded to move up from November to September a bond issue referendum to enable San Francisco, with PWA help, to buy the Hetch Hetchy power lines. And Mayor Maurice J. Tobin of Boston was, to Mr. Ickes' way of thinking, being extremely annoying in the matter of Boston's new city hall. Granted $1,125,000 toward this edifice, Mayor Tobin turned it down, instead...
...Roosevelt agency which has no cash donations with which to smooth the path of Federal domination over State Governments is NLRB. Last week, Iowa's Governor Nelson G. Kraschel and NLRB collided in a test of State v. expanding U. S. sovereignty. In paternalized Newton, where C. I. 6. employes of The Maytag Co. are striking against a pay cut (TIME, July 25), Governor Kraschel had declared martial law, closed the recently reopened Maytag plant. Reason: Maytag rejected a settlement proposed by Kraschel arbitrators, started the plant against the Governor's wishes, precipitated fighting between non-union...
...Clipper could have dropped the oil to smooth the sea for an emergency landing, then drifted off out of sight of the Meigs. But at the end of the week, though army bombers and navy destroyers and submarines kept up the weary search, the subject in the minds of most airmen was closed. The Clipper was a 26-ton Martin 130, built for Pan American's transpacific route in 1935. Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small...
...WALL-Mary Roberts Rinehart-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Mrs. Rinehart with her usual smooth craftsmanship and deft handling of a large cast tells how the indiscretions of a beautiful divorcee lead to three murders in a New England summer colony. Rivals may turn out more striking stories, but the suspense and atmosphere of The Wall make it the safest bet of the month for readers who want mysteries of general rather than specialized interest...