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...Flaying racketeering, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Klein declared: "A monstrous growth, a vile, malignant para site rising from the slime of criminal greed ! . . . This evil must be rooted out if American business is to progress vigorously again...
...another industry was shown in a speech he delivered at last week's Brussels meeting. "All industries," said he, "have transgressed good economic laws. . . . The capitalistic system is on trial. If you think the people who are running the industries of the world can by reason of this greed bring about such depressions as this and then not promptly take steps to mend them, no matter what the sacrifice to individuals may be, you are mistaken...
...imagine a better translation than that which William A. Drake has made. Originally titled Menschen Inn Hotel (People in a Hotel), the play manages to grasp a large chunk of existence, thrust it into a Berlin hostelry, expose it completely. It would be easy to demonstrate how Lust, Greed, Despair, Fear, Bravery are pursued throughout 36 hours in the life of a hotel and become Love, Disgrace, Hope, Birth, Death. But that would be doing precisely what Playwright Baum has, with consummate taste and brilliant use of understatement, avoided. Instead, she tells a series of delicately interwoven stories...
...villains were no longer in demand he sold Carl Laemmle the idea for a picture-The Pinnacle. Laemmle changed the name to Blind Husbands. "No one vill go to see de pinochle." Von Stroheim directed and played the lead. He arranged stories for other pictures. His best was Greed, based on McTeague, by Frank Norris. In his eagerness to make every job a masterpiece he consistently refused to conform to the commercial limitation of picture making. His films had to be cut to pieces to reduce them to program time. Producers became wary. His Wedding March, acclaimed by critics...
...believe in justice to him who hath as much as to him who hath not, and I think envy is as great a sin as greed...