Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were here now, I wonder if he wouldn't add a P. S. something like this. "There are promises, damned promises and Roosevelt promises...
...wonder how many people noticed that your cut of the new Jefferson nickel (TIME, Aug. 1) is slightly "flattened at the poles...
...Dembitz Brandeis, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jan Smuts, Harvard Law Dean Roscoe Pound, Ramsay MacDonald, Herbert Hoover: "What would you do?" Consensus was to tackle international problems, and Dr. Cherrington did, with endless lectures, seminars, model League of Nations assemblies, dinners and luncheons which after twelve years make visiting foreigners wonder why landlocked Denver is so world-minded. A few Denver intransigeants call Director Cherrington a Communist, but real Communists call him a "pantywaist." To Mr. Hull he was recommended by his able expositions of the Hull trade agreement program...
...Going to be Rich (Twentieth Century-Fox). Since a British comedienne named Gracie Fields has for the past few years been the reputedly highest paid cinemactress in the world, U. S. cinemaddicts may wonder: 1) why Fields pictures have never been exhibited in the U. S.; 2) why British audiences find her so funny. This first of three Fields pictures which Twentieth Century-Fox plans to make in its Pinewood studios, begs the first question but answers the second. An uproarious, rough & tumble comedy about life before the turn of the Century in the gold camps of South Africa...
...peak of $4,868,000,000. Then with Depression II they plopped to $3,916,000,000 for the week ended June 22. Last week, for the first time in 21 weeks, the Federal Reserve's tabulation showed a rise. The substantial $20,000,000 rally made economists wonder if the turn had come in credit as it apparently had in the stockmarket. That the volume of bank loans to commerce, industry and agriculture was expected to slump again this week was easily explained -U. S. Steel Corp. repaid the $50,000,000 it borrowed last December...