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...General Johnson announced: "In these codes it will be proper for an industry to say it will not sell below cost of production. But if they use the code to fix extortionate prices. I should have to step in. . . ." Administrator Johnson hoped that industries would keep prices in the background "for at least 90 days" until the nation's purchasing power had gotten a head start on rising price levels...
...story goes, then heads west to Louisiana and loses itself among the deserts and mountains of Mexico. Spanning the Napoleonic period, it introduces many a historical personage in human guise: Napoleon himself, Talleyrand, Slaver Mongo Tom, the Rothschilds (né Meyer). Though this lavish scene forms only the background for the hero, he is the least "real" (i. e., objectified) person in the book. A picaresque Everyman, he wanders the world searching for his soul, finally finds it; but most readers will be less interested in his quest than in his adventures by the way. Not a great book, except...
OBELISTS AT SEA-C. Daly King- Knopf ($2). Gangsters and robbery, shooting and poison, autopsy and body-stealing on a great Atlantic liner make adequate background for the mental and physical activities of leading exponents of four schools of psychology...
...loud speaker system helped them hear better. At the same long committee table sat elderly Senators, poking and prodding with questions to make the day's headlines. But now not one of them knew which way the evidence would turn next. Gathered decorously in the background was the little knot of witnesses waiting their turn on the stand. But now there was no stubborn defiance of the Senate, no refusal to testify...
...picture is something of a monotone because it uses the German institution for the education of Prussian army officers' daughters as the only background for the whole film. With the faithfulness of attention to detail which characterizes German cinema production. "Maedchen in Uniform" is alive with genuine emotion and a well-defined and exacting plot structure. There are many touches of the theatre from the entrance of the orphan Manuela into the school to the closing scene in which Fraulein von Beruburg is chosen spontaneously as the natural leader by the acclaim of the children for the understanding and gentleness...