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This query left Miss Goldman speechless but when related to U. A. W. Vice President Edward Hall, that gruff labor-man laughed: "Why didn't you tell her we manufacture trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Titters for Jitters | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...Races, which took a year to make, is happily distinguished from previous Marx pictures in that it contains more of them. A wild, complex, totally implausible fable about a run-down sanatorium, its impudent porter (Chico), an imported horse-doctorphysician (Groucho) and the steeplechase in which a speechless jockey (Harpo) gets the money to pay off the sanatorium's debts through his brilliant ride on a horse who hates the gambler who is trying to buy the sanatorium for use as a casino-it all adds up to nothing at all except superlative entertainment. A gag sequence omitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 21, 1937 | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...extend its informal greetings to all guests and delegates to the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conference on "The Role of Government in the National Economy." It has so far neglected to comment on those who are responsible for the Conference's progress from a vision to an actuality, from a speechless vacuum to a forum of discussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREETINGS | 2/26/1937 | See Source »

President Roosevelt's startling message to Congress, asking for power to name six additional Justices of the United States Supreme Court, left Harvard's government experts apparently speechless yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President's Supreme Court Message Leaves Faculty Members Speechless | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...remark: "He don't scare me none. That jury will turn me loose." After nearly three hours the jury pronounced him guilty, recommending he be spared a prison sentence. Immediately Judge Martineau imposed a fine of $3,500, a two-year prison term. Planter Peacher and Arkansas were speechless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Slavery in Arkansas | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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