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...dealing with the current Recession, a less confident executive than. Franklin Roosevelt might have made the tactical blunder of adopting the attitude of most business that it was: 1) unforeseen and 2) thoroughly alarming. Equipped with a temperament to which crises are almost a necessity, Franklin Roosevelt did nothing of the sort. In high good-humor, he held the first press conference of the week in the Oval Study next his bedroom where he told an audience of ten correspondents which tooth had given him trouble the week before: "No. 3 hold, starboard side." Informed that in Uvalde, Tex. Vice...
...Zielsdorf was apprised of his good fortune by "The Court of Missing Heirs," a bright radio idea of Skelly Oil Co. Aimed by Skelly Oil point-blank at that immense and sanguine section of the U. S. public which succumbs to bank night and sweepstakes tickets and dreams of unforeseen inheritances, the Court of Missing Heirs is not yet two months old but is already a radio success. Skelly filling stations are confined to the Midwest, so Skelly's Court of Missing Heirs is confined to 29 Columbia Broadcasting System and other Midwest stations. Dramatized each week...
Present high prices are due to the unforeseen occurrence of heavy droughts in 1934 and 1936, just after the New Deal's Agricultural Adjustment Administration had slaughtered huge numbers of swine and cattle. Last week it became evident that others beside the consumer have felt this acute livestock shortage when Cudahy Packing Co., fourth largest in the U. S.. passed a dividend for the first time since...
...which New Faces is based contained a first-rate comedy idea.. Its hero was a shoestring theatrical impresario whose method consisted of selling a show to several different backers, then making sure that the show was so bad it closed immediately. The method worked perfectly until the unforeseen accident of a hit put the impresario in the miserable position of having to pay 85% of its profits to all its various angels simultaneously. As rewritten by a battery of Hollywood scenarists, this idea is somehow boiled down to the skeleton for a succession of vaudeville turns most of which...
...termed a breach of the peace and undergraduates who indulge in them take the inescapable risk of running afoul of the law as well as the college authorities, it is evident that riots are an unprofitable way of spending a spring evening, and often lead the innocent student to unforeseen and disastrous ends. But, compared to riots that occur during strikes, and communist battles every May day, a student "riot" can hardly be called a serious affair. Despite several gallons of water spread over the streets of Cambridge, and a few parking signs transferred from one side of the road...