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...Gilpin, lady-charming magician in a summer vaudeville troupe, is shot on a Cape Cod bluff. Asey Mayo, shrewd Yankee with two murder solutions already to his credit, makes much of a strangled skunk, lets the murderer commit suicide...
...pledge to cut Government costs 25%, and to make ordinary Treasury receipts equal ordinary expenditures. Herbert Hoover handed him over the 1933 budget-a pale sick thing two-thirds gone and beyond salvation. But beginning July 1 President Roosevelt was master in his own financial household. Discharged employes might commit suicide but the President was prepared to economize as even Calvin Coolidge never dared to do. On July 1 more than 500,000 of the 1,418,853 pensioners were abruptly dropped from the rolls. These were veterans of the Spanish and World Wars who were being paid for ailments...
...exaggerated affection for her children has made weaklings of them and a monster of herself. Mrs. Phelps (Laura Hope Crews) badgers one of her sons (Eric Linden) into breaking his engagement on the ground that his fianceé (Frances Dee) does not love him enough. The girl tries to commit suicide by jumping into a lake and it strikes Mrs. Phelps as deplorable that her sons do not put on overcoats before going to pull her out. Then she does her best to spoil the marriage of her older son (Joel McCrea) -on the ground that his wife (Irene Dunne...
...reconciliation, and goes off to Duxbury by himself to think everything over. The Author, like his hero and unlike many of his death-possessed colleagues, has a personal reason for his bias towards grave thoughts. When he was n he saw his father kill his mother and then commit suicide. Harvardman (1911), Conrad Aiken was Class Poet, in a college generation that included such notables as Thomas Stearns Eliot, the late Alan Seeger, Van Wyck Brooks. Walter Lippmann, the late John Reed, Heywood Broun. Dedicated to literature, Aiken was never
...Some of us die-hards will persist in calling him "Major." Impudent young bloods will callously accept the new title, little realizing or caring that they are stamping on a fine old thing--a noble tradition. I, for one, regret this, and an bewildered by an officialdom which will commit such an act as this. D. G. Anderson...