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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...director of "Love, Live and Laugh", the present offering at the Keith-Albee, is one whose work we should like to see more often. In a movie whose plot depends upon the now rather shopworn world war, he has built up a suspense altogether foreign to most movies of today and managed with rare ability to sustain interest to the end. So far have the age-old strictures of producers been disregarded that the picture is actually allowed to close with the hero thwarted in his attempt to win the woman he loves. The rest of the plot has features...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...statesman who has been called "unfriendly." He insisted that he was friendly, that he had acted from the friendliest possible motives in reminding Russia and China by identic notes of their obligation as signatories of the Kellogg Pact not to fight. The retort of Moscow's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinov that the U. S. note was an unfriendly act seemed to cause Statesman Stimson only pain. His soft answer was to make no direct reply at all and to observe to correspondents: "Between co-signatories of the Pact, it can never be rightly thought unfriendly that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Backfire | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

President Hoover recommended increased appropriations for the foreign service, Prohibition, law enforcement, river & harbor improvements, care of Indians, forest protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Budget in Green | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...routine operation of Government-8? ($300,307,860, including the cost of Congress, the U. S. courts, foreign relations, law enforcement, the postal deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Budget in Green | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...should like to take exception to Mr. Cohen's statement in Wednesday's CRIMSON that "Mussolini is conducting in this country propaganda foreign to our ideals." Being an Italian-American and in favor of the Fascist movement in Italy I have become nauseated with the repeated gibes and attacks made against a friendly nation without palpable proofs of any kind. I am led to think that those who utter such flimsy assertions act either through malice or dark ignorance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Red and Black | 12/14/1929 | See Source »

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