Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife, may never have been his confidante and accomplice, as the State now charges, but credulity was strained last week when the other 19 defendants sought to join her in a parade of injured innocents. Why did M. Raoul Desbrosses, director of the Orleans municipal pawnshop, sign worthless bonds so that Stavisky might sell them? "Stavisky was desperate!" cried Defendant Desbrosses last week. "When I refused to sign, he drew a pistol, pressed it to his temple, and threatened to pull the trigger. I signed to prevent him from committing suicide and because I could not bear the scandal...
...Banker Claude Ashbrook of Miami declared that President Roosevelt's promise to keep the U. S. out of the war was worthless, "like all his other promises...
...predecessor if and when it does appear, would eliminate this financial difficulty. The production of the ordinary Red Book of the past few years runs above two thousand dollars, and when only half of the class buys the finished article, it makes the time and energy of the editors worthless, and the cost practically prohibitive. The new booklet would be of much more assistance to the incoming class...
...money" to make sales tax payments of less than 1?, despite the Treasury's opinion that such action infringes the Federal Government's sole power under the Constitution to coin money. The States' retort is that what they are issuing is not "legal tender" and therefore worthless for anything but their sales tax. Illinois has issued round aluminum tokens about the size of a dime, is now issuing larger square tokens that are less apt to be misused in telephones, slot machines and other coin devices. In Washington the round metal pieces have a hole in them...
...Crusades (Paramount). Cinemaddicts who have had 20 years in which to grow accustomed to the methods of Cecil Blount DeMille by now have some idea what to expect in a DeMille version of the Holy Wars. The Crusades should fulfill all expectations. As a picture it is historically worthless, didactically treacherous, artistically absurd. None of these defects impairs its entertainment value. It is a $1,000,000 sideshow which has at least three features which distinguish it from the long line of previous DeMille extravaganzas. It is the noisiest; it is the biggest; it contains no baths...