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...failed to recapture the strength of the book. For Madeleine Carroll and Brian Aherne hardly go below the surface to create characters who could be the object or the source of any emotion. They pass ineffectively through the story of a novelist. Aherne, finding himself and his worthless son, Louis Hayward, in love with the same painter, Carroll. That the picture suffers from the elimination of certain scenes of the book that might remove the fireless acting is unfortunate, but the result is a drawnout tale of unhappy lives and unhappy children. It is relieved only in the warm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

Last week in St. Louis "Buster" Dewey took off his gloves, fitted brass knuckles over his fingers and slugged: "The record of the New Deal is one of broken promises, contempt for free institutions and abuse of power. . . . The platforms were worthless. . . The erosion of character in this Administration began within six weeks after it took office. This country needs a restoration of character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Republicans | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Present Nazi rulers know that their people once bitten are twice shy. If Germans ever find their marks are worthless the Nazi regime may not long survive. So the Nazi Government, which has also run up an internal debt that it can scarcely hope to repay, this time has done so by forced loans and a thousand other expedients, but not by printing money. And yet Germans are beginning to have doubts about their money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Investors | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...That when his observations were finally submitted to the University of Copenhagen, they were shrugged off as worthless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...that time, too, Promoter Hunt, a former president of Iowa State Agricultural College, had formed Oriental Consolidated Mining Co. with the aid of British capital and U. S. engineers, was mining gold. His British bankers, however, believing their own engineers' reports that the enterprise was worthless, unloaded their Oriental holdings on the English public. Six years later they found they had made a tactical error. Since 1903 Oriental has grossed an average $3,000,000 worth of gold a year, paid $14,379,395 in dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Chosen Gold | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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