Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AMOS MELTON Star-Telegram Fort Worth...
...Leftists noisily at the throat of Brazil's green-shirted Fascist Integralistas, whose leader Plinio Salgado wears a Hitler mustache and advocates in misty Portuguese a "corporative State." Last fortnight more serious trouble appeared. The Departmento Nacional do Café, which has destroyed $638,750,000 worth of Brazil's surplus coffee to keep up the world price, announced that its deficit of $72,000,000 was becoming unmanageable, threw up its efforts at stabilization altogether...
...miss much if you don't go to the Memorial this week, although Robert Benchley and Robert Montgomery are milding amusing in "Live, Love and Learn." The other picture, "Madame X" is worth being paid to stay away from, and if you do get up the courage to stick through it, they'll be not a few moments when you'll want to scream lustily...
...Lippmann proposes to do, once he has applied social control instead of overhead direction. He declares that there must be mobility of capital. But if capital is to be mobile, it must be secure. "Thus there must be required stringent liability on the part of promoters for the worth and good faith of the securities they issue . . ." And further capital must not become "entrenched in certain favored corporate structures." Therefore "the limited liability corporation must be deprived of the right to retain profits and invest them, . . . not according to the judgment of the market but at the discretion...
Based on political satire that is amusing if not very biting, "All Baba" is worth seeing though to some it may seem to suffer from the plethora of stage and screen production of the same nature currently before the public...