Word: welters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world is to secure economic peace . . . the first point of attack is to secure greater stability in currencies. . . . In all the welter of discussion there are some who are maintaining that the world has outgrown the use of gold as a basis of currency and exchange. . . . But we have to remember that it is a commodity the value of which is enshrined in human instincts for over 10,000 years. The time may come when the world can safely abandon its use altogether but it has not yet reached that point. . . . The fears and apprehensions directed to the stability...
...same, Herr Hitler was not given carte blanche to form a Cabinet. The President attached seven complex and, as events proved, impossible conditions. After 14 days of Cabinet crisis there emerged as Chancellor, out of a welter of intrigue, "His Field Grey Eminence," suave, sly Defense Minister General Kurt von Schleicher. By his friends the General's adroit scheming is said to have "made and broken" as Chancellor both fashionable, aristocratic Franz von Papen and his predecessor, pious, ascetic Dr. Heinrich Brüning...
...People (by Elmer Rice, producer) is a potent squawk in 20 scenes with 44 characters against U. S. capitalism. In a welter of interrelated stories and typical industrial abuses, William Davis is a contented iron works foreman with a refined school teacher daughter about to marry a genteel bank clerk, and a bright son entering the State University. Comes Depression, Davis loses his job, his savings in a bank crash, his home and is finally shot down in an unemployed demonstration. The daughter lives in sin with her bank clerk. The son, jailed for stealing a little coal, joins...
...welter of confused thought in Mr. Lindley's article there can be detected a halting recognition that possibly the old principles of the competitive society to which he shouts his allegiance are not perfect. In his references to the "error in direction" in human endeavor and the admission that there is "something rotten in the system,"--in spite of his final conclusion that "there is nothing intrinsically wrong with our system"--Mr. Lindley shows that he is not 100 per cent sold on President Hoover's individualist philosophy of government. He gives no evidence, however, that he realizes the fundamental...
...Angeles and it was therefore feasible for Paramount to persuade several real sportswriters to perform in it. Grantland Rice, Westbrook Pegler, Paul Gallico. Damon Runyon. Jack Lait appear momentarily, drinking coffee; Runyon speaks but Pegler is to be recognized only by his right out. In all this welter of authenticity, it is only natural for the story of Madison Square Garden to seem a little unreal by comparison. It is mainly about a young middleweight (Jack Oakie) and his manager (William Collier Sr.). The manager takes the job of matchmaker at the Garden and the middleweight, left to shift...