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...Reynolds was known to have talked of suicide often. Then gossipy newshawks began to arrive from New York and spread stories about Libby Holman, darling of Broadway. It was learned that she was a Jewess, that her father had changed his name from Holzman. She had married a queer backward youth six years her junior out of pity, she said, more than love. Was she after his $15,000,000 share of the Reynolds estate? Manhattan tabloids playing up her stage life and loves got back to Winston-Salem, stirred old Southern prejudices. In this atmosphere of moral distrust...
...stand of Capital-ism." The country, he believes, is ripe for a dictatorship, with the mass of people stunned into inaction by the Depression. All that is lacking is the dictator himself. The Bonus Expeditionary Force encamped at the capital, he once thought, offered fertile soil for such a backward movement but its leaders did not measure up to the political opportunity. "If the country wasn't so sprawling." declared Socialist Thomas, "a man like Senator Huey Long might seize demagogic control...
...step backward. . . . The preamble asserts that the time is ripe for disarmament but all the subsequent contents of the resolution represent an utter negation of that assertion." Suiting action to his words the Soviet Delegate moved to amend the resolution by inserting into it the chief, concrete features of the Hoover Plan. Three votes were taken and on all three the U. S. Ambassador voted against insertion of the Hoover Plan. At this juncture a huge "silver" (aluminum) seaplane, roaring up from Rome, appeared over Geneva. The Delegates, as they voted down the Russian proposals, could...
Plans. Cheered only by the dubious satisfaction of being able to look backward on the worst year in their history, cinema producers had last week finished announcing their production schedules for 1932-33-Added to their other burdens next year will be a Federal amusement tax of 10% on admissions over 40¢. This will affect only 400 of 12,500 U. S. cinema theatres. Squirming together in the same kettle of fish, cinema producers have lately realized that, to keep their own theatres open, they need the assistance of rival producers. Next year they will cooperate more than heretofore...
...matches almost always end. Shikat seized Lewis by his fat middle, tried to whirl him over his head in an airplane spin. This was what Lewis had been arduously waiting for. He had just enough strength left to seize Shikat's skull in his headlock, throw him down backward three times, fall on him the fourth time to win the match...