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James Andrew Moffett, onetime vice president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, is a member of the Roosevelt Administration to whom most businessmen look with rousing hope. The Federal Housing Administrator, who speaks their language, has taken the lead within the Government of rallying chat conservative opinion which believes that sound recovery must wait on private capital, which opposes huge Federal expenditures that put the Government in competition with private business and frighten off the first faint flutters of returning business confidence. The other school of New Deal thought favors spending Federal funds on a grand scale for maximum social...
...spectators who witnessed this slick musicomedy success last week could have guessed the travail its book had undergone. When the Morro Castle caught fire last September off the New Jersey coast, killed 134 people and ran aground, it also wrecked the libretto of Producer Vinton Freedley's Anything Goes. Months before in France, the oldtime British libretto team of Guy Bolton and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse had written a comic script about a marine disaster. The Morro Castle tragedy instantly ruled it out as a subject for fun-making. Producer Freedley sent up a distress signal, got two able...
Prime obstacle to Floyd Bennett's capture of the airline business is the fact that Newark is the official metropolitan airmail terminus. The threat to move the mail elsewhere caused New Jersey's Governor Moore last week to wire Postmaster General Farley: "It would be rather a shabby trick to play upon Newark after it had spent such vast sums [$5,000,000] to facilitate the Federal mail service...
...cinema's $405,844,000, 70% was derived from New York, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, New Jersey, Michigan, Texas, Missouri, with more than $10,000,000 each. Of 9,499 cinema houses in the U. S., 820 are in New York, 722 in Pennsylvania. Only State in which cinema was not the most popular amusement was Florida, where 14 horse & dog race tracks took in $2,406,000 to cinema...
DEATH RIDES THE AIR LINE, by William Sutherland Land a plans at a New Jersey airport with one murdered and five suspected murdered and you have a plot that will give you plenty be worry about for a couple of hours. Add to the plot the smooth-bowing dialogue and description of William Sutherland, and you make the worrying a very interesting past-time. Inspector Grady does most of the investigating--and gets into the usual mystery-story complexities. As usual the one least suspected is the guilty one--and we'll give you no more tips about...