Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt has a temperament so beautifully suited for political leadership that there is only one thing he enjoys more than projecting himself into a large audience of respectful men and listening to his own assuring counsel. This is projecting himself far into the future and viewing himself retrospectively in the grandeur he will have assumed 100 years hence. In Washington last week the President made good use of his opportunity. From a beginning devoted to a historical picture of the New Deal as the logical modern flowering of a tradition in government set by Andrew Jackson, Washington, Jefferson...
...sort. At Nashville, Secretary Ickes drew a parallel between Andrew Jackson's struggle with the Bank of the United States and Franklin Roosevelt's struggle with "the hydra-headed economic monster of 1938," by which he meant monopoly. In Chicago, Attorney General Cummings said the same thing less picturesquely, found fault with existing anti-trust laws. Secretaries Wallace at Des Moines, Woodring at Denver and Roper at Columbus defended respectively farm control, domestic peace in view of foreign threats of war, and economic reform...
After watching a grocery boy deliver a package of thing which he rather unromantically concluded were probably groceries, the Vagabond turned around briskly, and blinded by the sudden darkness, proceeded to run his finger up and down the card Catalogue until he found it was the back of a girl's checked cost. "Pardon me," he stammered, "I was looking for Gini." "Well, she's not here," came the answer...
...thing is to be said in favor of the picture--the music by Cole Porter. But by listening to the radio for an evening, anyone is sure to hear "Rosalie" and "In The Still of the Night" at least a half dozen times...
...Bernie, to the magnificent clowning of Bert Lahr and Joan Davis, who make a good bid to steal the show. In between these extremes, however, is the simpler and far more appealing humor of the naive mind, childishly coping with the wicked world. At this sort of thing, strangely enough, Mile Simon is very good indeed...