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...that has been concocted out of the two wrecks, everything that can be done with the situation of two people stranded in a hick town has been done, effortlessly and good-humoredly, with excellent results as entertainment. If It's a Small World invites comparison with It Happened One Night it need concede priority only in the use of its general structure. Its acrid inconsequent mood is its own. Wendy Barrie's father, a King's Counsel named Jenkin, is a barrister in Hongkong where she was born. Her mother christened her Wendy. She naturally picked Barrie...
...resignation with very real regret. For nearly two years you have discharged your important duties with distinction and success. A survey of your record and that of your office, taking into account the business transacted, the multiplicity of matters intrusted to your care, and the results achieved, will challenge comparison with any like period of time in the history of your department...
...continuing the policy up to yesterday seems almost incredible. Last year's drought, predicted months in advance by students of metreology who had discovered a five-year period of abnormal rain-fall, reduced wheat production to a point which made even the AAA's effort appear puny by comparison. Because of the drought and government "planning" any surplus was expected to be negligible. Havoc wrought by the recent dust storm, coupled with continued government reduction, has now made any real surplus impossible and a shortage probable. High- or wheat prices, all ready reflected in the Chicago grain markets, may well...
...Chicago Great Western is a 1,518-mi. "Granger" road sprawling over the rich farm territory directly west of Chicago. Small in comparison with Grangers like Burlington or North Western, it is strategically important as a connection between the Transcontinentals and Chicago. Its president is Patrick H. ("Pat") Joyce, who declared on taking office in 1930 that the "trouble [with the road] is too damn many men wearing the seats of their pants shiny." And under the hard-boiled Joyce management Great Western was one of the few U. S. roads to show a bigger profit in 1930 than...
...those reformers who attack with public opinion behind them, and are rewarded with an increase in their wealth and popularity. He was not one of those reformers . . . who run counter to public opinion and are put in prison and ruined." Kingsmill states his whole case in one arresting comparison when he calls Charlie Chaplin "the Dickens of the 20th Century...