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...from post to post, the ticker day after day fell behind. Volume reached new peaks as the public all over the U. S. began buying. One day, 1,090,000 shares changed hands in the first hour-heaviest trading in nine months. June, which had promised to produce the thinnest trading since the War, ended with more shares (23,364,130) being sold than in any month so far this year...
...with good dialogue and acting by Bruce Cabot and Margaret Lindsay. Though having a comparatively simple plot, it slips into the pilate of most murder stories when it concludes with the murderer being discovered at a dinner party. Of course, he is the one least suspected and with the thinnest of motives...
Satan Met a Lady (Warner). The Thin Man (1934) set a new style in detective pictures. Imitations of it have been frequent. Satan Met a Lady is the thinnest imitation of it so far recorded, remarkable chiefly because Dashiell Hammett was author of the stories from which both pictures were adapted...
...short, incomplete and spotty record, the Supreme Court is said to be disposed, by the thinnest of margins, to take a broad view of recovery legislation. Widely advertised as victories for the Administration were the Minnesota mortgage moratorium (TIME. Jan. 15) and New York milk cases. In each instance the Supreme Court lined up 5-to-4 in favor of the New Deal: Chief Justice Hughes, Justices Brandeis. Stone, Roberts, Cardozo against dissenting Justices Sutherland, Butler, McReynolds, Van Devanter. But thoughtful conservatives point out that those cases did not involve Federal legislation and that since the laws in question were...
Popular Pitcher. Thinnest, blondest member of Manager Joe McCarthy's Yankees, Vernon Gomez has succeeded in his profession largely by accident. His father, Francisco Gomez, was a rancher and rodeo performer who settled in Rodeo, Calif. There Vernon was born in 1910. At 13, Vernon Gomez hoped to be a rodeo performer also. He fell off a horse and broke his right arm, took to throwing baseballs with his left. The next spring while a freshman at Richmond High School, he became so expert that a Pacific Coast League team offered him a contract. A member of his high...