Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman who wish to relax from the rigors of registration during the weekend, Boston's cinema houses offer one excellent picture and several more worth the dissipation of a few hours. Most appealing to this column is Warner Brothers' "Four Daughters", at the Metropolitan, which stars the Lane sisters, Claude Rains, and John Garfield. As yet it marks the best of the "homey" stories with which Hollywood has been recently concerned, having more originality and better acting than the successful "Love Finds Andy Hardy." Garfield, whose first name on Broadway was Jules, is without question the most distinctive, actor...
...Texas, where Democrats have a U. S. Supreme Court decision empowering them to close their primaries to Negroes on the ground that the Democratic Party has the status of a private club in regulating its membership, the news that 1,500 Negroes had nevertheless voted in Fort Worth in last month's primary provoked a bitter intraparty squabble...
...Senate over Senator William G. McAdoo. The scheme would add an estimated $1,315,766,400 to the State budget. How Californian capital cottons to this benign idea of legislating Utopia became apparent last week when California offered for sale for unemployment relief $2,000,000 worth of registered warrants payable in February. Such State borrowings as recently as August 12 were easily sold at .75%. Last week there was but one bid, from Bankamerica...
...bosses, said they were safe, they must be safe. Their faith in democracy was often demonstrated just as literally. Because a giant worker heard that workers were equal with the rich, he carried a mattress, white sheets, wore silk pajamas, and one derisive titter at this display was worth a titterer's life. Brooding one time over a ludicrously unfounded case of discrimination, he asked Stoyan, the gang's spokesman, to complain to President Wilson. Then Stoyan refused, this giant lost a lot of faith in democracy, left the gang in sad disgust. What most amazed Stoyan...
...Some 4,000 amateurs are in Chicago this week for the first national A.R.R.L. convention to be held in 14 years. Amateur operators range in age from 8 to So, include radio repairmen, engineers, corporation executives, bellhops, coal miners, women, small girls, professional men. Their stations are worth anywhere from $25 to $35,000. They are called in by the army, navy and the Red Cross to assist in times of disaster, set up emergency communication systems for relaying messages from isolated communities in storm, flood and earthquake...