Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None other than Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt also spoke up. Her sounding board was the Republican New York Herald Tribune's annual Forum on Current Problems (which also heard Mr. Dies). She spoke by radio from Cincinnati, Ohio, a State where an able Democratic wife could be useful in offsetting the campaign efforts of an able Republican wife. Mrs. Robert A. Taft (see p. 9). Said Mrs. Roosevelt by radio: "I am very much disturbed . . . more women than men write to me suggesting that Communism may be gaining a real hold. There is stress laid upon what to fight against...
...Wilshire Boulevard last week collected gaping curiosity seekers and frightened neighbors. Outside, a posse headed by U. S. Marshal Robert P. Clark had waited ten days to take peaceful possession of the house in the name of the U. S. Government. Inside. Mrs. Anna Laura Lowe Barnett, onetime wife of "World's Richest Indian'' Jackson Barnett, sat waiting too. Marshal Clark said he would enter the house without violence. Mrs. Barnett said she would keep him out with knives & guns. And if they failed, threatened Mrs. Barnett, she had enough dynamite in the house to blow Wilshire...
...calling for great acting performances. Nor does, it have them. Not comparing too favorably--with the stage version, probably due in part to the exclusion of the balder parts, it has surges of comedy mixed with surges of melodrama. It deals with attempts to conceal a wife and baby while at V. M. I., to conceal a women in one's room, and to conceal the fact of being out after hours. Wayne Morris as Billy Randolph manages to get the just blame for all these deception,--being a big hearted with bungler with big ideas. Priscilla Lane...
Among those accused were Fred G. Healy, whom Harry Hopkins last month quietly removed as New Mexico's WPAdministrator; an Internal Revenue man; the head of the State Drivers License Bureau; the wife and brother of Albuquerque's postmaster; the police chief of Las Vegas and his brother; Joe Martinez, secretary to Senator Chavez, the New Dealer whom Jim Farley got appointed after Senator Bronson Cutting was killed in an air crash. Swart, Spanish-blooded poor-but-proud Senator Dennis Chavez, who got credit for most of the Federal funds obtained for New Mexico, also beheld four...
...second half of the novel pictures big-time corruption in Paris, complete with blackmailers, international financiers and gamblers, it is less convincing than the early chapters laid in a little town near Marseille. There the mayor's 16-year-old son is having an affair with the wife of the tax collector, as is the local doctor; the dealer in funeral wreaths is embracing his wife's maid, who is also having an affair with the son of a schoolteacher, who, in turn, is mixed up with the nymphomaniac daughter of the owner of the local chocolate factory...