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...nationally known firms. No famed industrialists protested. Some businessmen thought the tax bill was sound in aim. Many considered it half-baked but relatively harmless. Some expected to profit by it. And most of those who expected to be pinched by higher taxes were either resigned to their fate or convinced of the uselessness of complaint. Therefore only twice during last week's hearings were committee ears held close enough to the grindstone to be rubbed red by its rough contact...
...lacking in depth. The plot concerns itself with the tragic childhood of a young boy subjected to the inexorable tyranny of an unjust mother. Buffeted by the harsh tribulations of unhappy domestic life, he becomes engulfed in a whirlwind of despair which barely escapes culmination in a terrible fate. It is not until his psychological problem is fully understood by his father, a victim of unhappy matrimony, that he finds solace in the maxim that it is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misfortune...
...local WPA and resent to the innermost core of my being this threat to personal freedom and self respect. And what could be more brazen than the frank acknowledgment and the making scientific of a spoils system that smells to high heaven. It is high time we wrested the fate of our citizens from the clutches of the politician and entrusted it to those trained in public administration. Such tactics as those used by Mr. Hurja turn people to the extreme right or to the extreme left...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the historically unjustified name Hollywood has given to the turgid tragedy of Joaquin Murieta. He was a simple peon whose fate, according to this picture, was typical of all California Mexicans after los Americanos usurped the State...
Some critics left the premiere growling that Clyde (played by Alexander Kirkland) was a cad, that no matter how far back one probed to fix the blame for his fate, there was no excuse for indicting Society. Meanwhile, the theatre was resounding with jubilant whistles and applause not only from radical Group Theatre sympathizers but from many a nonpartisan theatregoer who had just been given a mighty exhibition of theatrical illusion...