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...spends more to maintain a pleasure resort than he is willing to accord 100 destitute families...
...President Hoover defended his advocacy of Red Cross Drought Relief over the Senate plan for direct feeding of the needy by the Government. Excerpt: "This is not an issue as to whether people shall go hungry and cold. It is a question as to whether the American people will maintain the spirit of charity and mutual self help." But the President showed this much willingness to compromise: "If the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and suffering, I will ask the aid of every resource...
Afflatus Gandhi came two days before to Lucknow with Pandit Motilal Nehru in order that the latter might have x-ray treatment. He died of a lingering illness, aggravated (many of his friends maintain) by repeated British doses of imprisonment...
...thread together these and kindred quaint inventions the picture tells the story of a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). He falls in love with her, encouraging her to believe he is a millionaire. His difficulties in getting funds to maintain this reputation in her unseeing eyes supply most of the complications. He finally acquires $1.000 for which he is promptly and unjustly jailed. When he emerges she has regained her sight by the aid of the thousand. As the film fades she recognizes in the ragged helpless vagrant the wealthy prince she dreamed about in darkness...
Steady but slow has been the 1931 march of the motormakers. They do not expect this year to be great; they maintain it will be satisfactory. No fanfares and banners have heralded any attempt to invade once more the rich territory of Tremendous Profits from which they retreated in such confusion last year...