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Italy and 25 Minor Nations stood squarely behind the President and only the fact that the Conference had been hastily adjourned over the week-end prevented the 25 little fellows from making pro-Hoover speeches. On the other hand Poland (stanch ally of France) was frankly and flatly anti-Hoover, more so than Premier Herriot himself. Throughout Europe a belief grew (and U. S. State Department denials did not down it) that President Hoover was secretly offering a "gentleman's agreement" to the Great Powers...
Toward Monday evening the reason for his return had become more apparent. In the week-end uncertainty, Central Republic's stock, unlisted, had slipped badly on over-the-counter quotations?from 46 to 2. Talk of liquidation was in the air. Late in the evening Banker Dawes issued a statement. Said...
...cool quiet of his camp on the Rapidan President Hoover took the directorate of Reconstruction Finance Corp. for a week-end talk about Relief. House Democrats had spurned the Hoover program, were in fact on the verge of passing their own bill for a big public works bond issue. The President and his R. F. C. conferees sat all day. Dusk melted into night but the discussion ran on. A little breeze riffled papers and reports on the conference table...
...Week-End Marriage (First National). In cinema, when you find a husband & wife buying dinner at a delicatessen, you should suspect that they will be unhappy. In this case, Loretta Young has no time to cook for Norman Foster because she is working in an office, in itself a bad sign. When Norman Foster has lost his job and Loretta Young has had her salary raised, their situation grows acute. Foster takes to drink. Loretta Young goes on a business trip. Finally, Foster falls sick and his wife comes home to nurse...
...Week-End Marriage points a familiar lesson in a banal way, but it is well acted, well directed by Thornton Freeland, and dealing with conventional surfaces, it does so honestly. The story was adapted from Faith Baldwin's Part Time Wives. The opening scene is almost word for word from Maxwell Anderson's Saturday's Children which Warner Brothers produced as a cinema...