Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Crowder has written a fine memorandum on this subject [limitation of Philippine sugar imports]. He has also learned that the plans of the General Staff provide that in case of war any attempt to keep a traffic lane open between the Philippines and the U. S. would be promptly abandoned. . . . We plan to use this information . . . to the best advantage...
...Heretofore the I. C. C., by rejecting merger proposals, has been telling carriers how they might not consolidate. Its own plan serves to show roads how they now may. The Commission has no power to compel roads to merge in accordance with its plan, which it frankly states is subject to "modification." Since rail consolidations became a public policy in 1920, grave doubts have arisen as to their present necessity. Carriers have improved financially by leaps and bounds, with few weak roads needing the aid of strong ones. The agitation in Congress for additional consolidation legislation is designed to give...
...like a furnace door, and die they do, one by one-an artist, a vaudeville trouper, a farmer, a clerk, a wagon driver, a prizefighter, an evangelist. Their reactions to the death sentence and the way in which the sentence is executed on each of them is the subject of The Lost Patrol...
...Marriage Playground (Paramount). What happens to children in families that have a penchant for divorces was the subject of a novel (The Children) by Edith Wharton which this picture reproduces faithfully. Mrs. Wharton's professional, knowingly maternal sympathy, her bookish characters, even the glossy feeling of her style, are in The Marriage Playground. It is handsomely staged, conscientiously acted, unreal, inane. Numerous precocious stage children do their specialties as Mary Brian, the oldest and best-looking of the family, gives them their cues. Silliest shot: the cocktail council on the beach...
Shrewd rather than witty, this comedy of marriage succeeds in being entertaining because Edwin Burke, from whose play it was adapted, sensibly avoided the deeper implications of his subject. The idea of it is that married people get along better if they are not in love with each other. A girl who has seen her sister become possessive, jealous, dissatisfied because she was in love with her husband, makes a business deal with a gentleman, stipulating that she is to run his home and live with him at a salary of $25,000 and all expenses paid. The reversal, created...