Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures made to follow the book even fairly closely, "The Count of Monte Cristo" as a film does a welcome justice to Dumas. In spite of the whispered query of the garrulous lady who came in during the prison scene, sat down behind your reviewer and with a sigh asked if this picture had anything to do with Dante's Inferno, the work of newcomer Robert Donta as Edmund Danta was refreshingly outstanding. Elissa Landi is as beautiful as ever though not very much in evidence...
...Loray Mill of Manville Jenckes Corp. announced that its employes had petitioned to continue work. At Charlotte, N. C., union leaders held what amounted to an old-fashioned Southern camp-meeting, with mighty prayers for success. In Paterson, N. J., silk textile workers announced that they would strike in spite of the fact that their contract with manufacturers forbids a walkout without first consulting the Industry's Industrial Relations Board...
...autumn Mr. Sloan proudly counted the results: the industry's 320,000 employes in March had become 465,000 in September. Its $12,800,000 monthly payroll had become $26,000,000 in September. Textile workers were earning 40% more per week in spite of working shorter hours. Everyone was proud...
...white farmer named Fred Kruse got up and told the others what was what. Hindus and Japanese were moving up from Imperial Valley. In spite of Arizona's land laws which forbid aliens ineligible for U. S. citizenship from owning, leasing or farming land except as laborers, yellow men and brown were already farming 8,000 acres. It was time to put a stop to it! Let every Japanese and Hindu quit the valley by Saturday night or the Aryans would run them...
Japan's rebuttal to Comrade Rudy last week was drastic if not hysterical. Tokyo papers broke out in a rash of charges that Soviet employes of C. E. R. have been burning themselves out of their own railway stations, wrecking their own trains to spite Manchukuo...