Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Sous les Toits de Paris (Film Sonora Co.). This pleasant little film in French is arranged according to the 1928 formula of U. S. talking pictures - a formula which the French, like other European producers, have recently become able to imitate successfully. A theme song - now obsolete in Hollywood - is heartily employed, but "Sous les Toits de Paris" is a pretty song, gay and nostalgic ; it ought to be popular if native orchestras bother to work out a dance arrangement for it. The plot concerns a street-singer and a street-hawker who fall in love with the prettiest girl...
...formulating his statement, a learned U. S. attorney, Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne was in Brussels attempting to persuade the world's sugar-growers to adjust production to consumption (TIME, Dec. 15). Although he had previously succeeded in uniting Java growers with the Cubans, he failed to draw the European beet-sugar producers into the agreement. Just as the conference was drawing to a close, the powerful German delegation left Brussels, announced they could not conform to the schedule given them. Private negotiations will continue, for other nations have agreed to the restriction, contingent upon Germany's eventual consent...
Steel. Last week the European Steel Cartel renewed itself, but has abandoned an ambitious program, will concentrate on settling Franco-German differences. In the U. S. steelmen cooperate as shown in the recent price raise (TIME, Dec. 15). The fact that most steel companies are completely integrated units is beneficial...
...while the late conference of the preceding night had failed to prevent the closing, it had at least given bankers a definite plan of action. To all European. houses and newspapers assurance had been sent that Bank of United States, despite its imposing name, was only a small State bank, had no connection with the U. S. Government. And with unprecedented speed, members of New York Clearing House announced they would lend 50% of Bank of United States' deposits as soon as balances could be checked. Proudly signing the Clearing House statement were two banks which had contemplated entering...
...League of Nations, and the so-called World Court. The League is regarded from a critical point of view, with the action of the United States in not joining being analyzed. An interesting forecast is made of the future position of the United States as concerns its participation in European affairs and in attempts to establish some sort of control for the whole world...