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During the waiting period, speculators taking the hint tentatively bid up commodities and stocks. When the day of the event arrived, the press, 125 strong, trooped into the President's oval office; they found it rigged up, as one reporter murmured sotto voce, like a college course in Economics 2A. At his desk sat the President, jovial as ever. Behind him was an easel stacked with charts. 'Primly erect, like a visiting professor, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau sat at one side, flanked by James Roosevelt, Charles Michelson, Steve Early, Marvin Mclntyre and the usual Secret Service...
...votes than the two-thirds required to invoke cloture and end the filibuster, but the filibuster nevertheless went on. Alert Walter White made increasingly anxious trips downstairs to confer with Senators in the reception room. One of his departures from the gallery was noted by Jimmy Byrnes with sotto voce sarcasm: "Barkley can't do anything without talking to that nigger first...
...last year. As such, it goes a long way to disprove the Hollywood theory that, given a free hand in selecting stories and casts, an actor's vanity is sure to lead him astray. Great Guy is vintage Cagney, exhibiting him at all the shoulder-punching and sotto voce wisecracking on which was founded his reputation as the cinema's No. i mick...
...screen. As such it is satisfying entertainment. Vivacious little Diva Pons yodels a nameless vocal exercise, an adaptation of Panofka's Tarantella, an Arthur Schwartz tune called Seal It With a Kiss and, for the inevitable climax on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, the Una voce poco fa aria from The Barber of Seville, in which she turns loose the fastest high C yet released on a Hollywood sound track. All these correspond to the school figures of cine-musicomedy. The real pyrotechnics of That Girl from Paris come when Diva Pons puts classical touches on The Blue...
...went to a figurehead from the carpenters' union, James William Williams. Last week Plasterer McDonough brought the old fight to a crisis when he appeared at the Atlantic City convention, demanded a seat in the name of his rumpsters. Mr. Green confidently put the question to a viva voce vote, announced that Mr. McDonough had been counted out. "NO!" the convention roared back at startled Mr. Green. The roll-call vote on a proposal to withhold action on Mr. McDonough's ouster until a compromise might be settled this week...