Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry is not 'ripe' for conciliation and mediation of its labor disputes, then it is overripe for ruin." At one point Mr. Kennedy was so steamed up that Senator Copeland cautioned: "As chairman of this committee I welcome your fury, Joe, but as a doctor I must tell you it isn't doing your stomach ulcer any good...
...school superintendents spoke sharply not to but for Youth. After spending two years studying the plight of the 20,000,000 U. S. youngsters between 15 and 24, a commission* found Youth more sinned against than sinning. Their report, in Youth Education Today, the superintendents' yearbook, tried to tell the U. S. what it ought to do about Youth's troubles...
...dead to every healthy human instinct for mischief, he may never have imagined the fun of playing hob with a company's books. Expand an asset here, thumbnose at a liability there, list the right figures in the wrong columns, and a company would soon be unable to tell its assets from its inventory. Last week, the Manhattan Curb Exchange and the Amsterdam Bourse suspended trading in the stock of Interstate Hosiery Mills, Inc. while its officials tried to make sense of its balance sheet. A small, rather bald accountant named Raymond Marien was being held in jail. Accountants...
...Human Hearts (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is dedicated to the proposition that a boy's best friend is his mother, proves its point by the legend that Abraham Lincoln once summoned a young officer from a Civil War battlefield to tell him so. But before it begins gesturing at its stagy moral, Of Human Hearts does a patient, workmanlike job of reconstructing life in an early 19th-Century Ohio River outpost. Of Human Hearts follows the lives of a stalwart, righteous circuit rider (Walter Huston), his wife (Beulah Bondi) and his son Jason (as a boy, eleven-year-old Gene...
...stared at his wrist watch. The rest of the story is really Jeremiah's. It follows him back to his lonely childhood outside Jerusalem, through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because he would not tell kings or commoners what they wanted to believe, he was imprisoned, hunted as a spy, nearly killed. When Jerusalem was laid waste, his last request -that he be allowed to follow the children of Israel into captivity-was refused, and Jeremiah wandered alone through the burning city, into the desecrated...