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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limelight lover after 17 years underground, Witness Krivitsky was still able to smile sardonically for cameramen after five hours of testimony, called it the worst ordeal of his life...
...Hatch Act (no politicking for Federal employes). The most sincere New Dealer of the lot, Maury Maverick, has got himself into political trouble in Texas by espousing free speech for Communists and letting the home folks think he has "gone national." This week Mr. Maverick got into his worst trouble yet. Along with a local official and a former business agent of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, he was indicted by a Bexar County grand jury charged with using union contributions to pay poll taxes for some of his Labor voters...
...earthquake instead of the middle of the ocean, Dr. L. Don Leet, head of the Harvard seismograph station reported last night. Previously Dr. Leet had hazarded the guess that the center of the quake was in the ocean, but recent reports from other stations confirmed the fact that the worst tremors were somewhere in the vicinity of Ottawa...
Despite its genuine humanity, its touches of humor and moments of drama, They Knew What They Wanted is sometimes awkward, fumbling, slow-moving; and the present production brings out the worst in it. Where the original company gave it the lift that a fine orchestra can give to a fairly good piece of music, the present company gives it the drubbing of a high-school band. Pathetic gags meant to reveal the simple natures of the characters are played for comedy lines. June Walker is a likable if unimpressive heroine, but Giuseppe Sterni's only virtue is his authentic...
Every fall the U. S.'s No. 2 industry* buds with optimism. This week it is in full flower. For motormakers 1938 was a hard year (4th worst in number of sales since record 1929) with profits down as much as 70%, total production little more than half of 1937. But the close of the 1939 automobile year on September 30 showed: 1) profits up moderately; 2) total production of 3,587,000 units (4th best year since 1929) up 33% over 1938; 3) new car stocks not over 147,000 units-within 2% of their historic 1938 Sept...