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...Frank Vosper (who last month disappeared in mid-ocean), this film investigates the prelude to a quiet murder in a British country house. The afternoon she advertises her flat for rent because she has just won first prize in a Paris lottery, Carol Howard (Ann Harding) receives a prospective tenant in the person of Gerald Lovell (Basil Rathbone), whose worldly manners soon so charm her that she marries him. After a gay honeymoon in Paris, they settle down together in a Kentish cottage, paid for with funds which Gerald has borrowed from his wife. Life in the cottage is idyllic...
...House: ¶ Virtually scuttled the New Deal's plans for improving the lot of tenant farmers and sharecroppers when seven Democrats joined with six Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee and killed (13 to 11) the section of the Farm Tenancy bill that provided for an appropriation of $50,000,000 annually for ten years to finance farmers seeking to purchase farms they now operate for absentee owners. Day before suffering their first major legislative setback in the present Congress, President Roosevelt, who had previously made the farm tenancy problem the subject of a special message, made a personal...
...Housing. "Many millions of Americans still live in habitations which not only fail to provide the physical benefits of modern civilization but breed disease. . . ." Tenancy- "I do not suggest that every farm family has the capacity to earn a satisfactory living on its own farm. But many thousands of tenant farmers-indeed most of them-with some financial assistance and with some advice and training, can be made self-supporting on land which can eventually belong to them." Social Security. "In many nations where such laws are in effect success in meeting the expectations of the community has come through...
...tenants of the White House -Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr. (formerly Cleveland), Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. William Howard Taft, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover, and also Mrs. Benjamin Harrison who never was a tenant*-were sent invitations last week to attend the second inaugural of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jan. 20. The political sympathies of few if any of the invitees would lead them to attend, but if they declined they would miss an opportunity to see the present tenant of the White House in his best form. For last week he entered...
...general manager of Pan American Airways, was elected a director of Chrysler Corp. Not because he is a heavy stockholder, not because Chrysler is becoming interested in aviation, young Mr. Trippe was invited into the No. 3 motors directorate because Walter P. Chrysler, who often sees his neighbor and tenant at lunch in the Cloud Club atop the Chrysler Building, believes in surrounding himself with leaders in other industries...