Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Manifest Destiny: "I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the Canal does also." Last week Franklin Roosevelt, fast losing the sunburn he acquired in the Caribbean not far from the Panama Canal, may well have foreseen trouble for his Good Neighbor Policy in the tiny Republic of Panama...
...Love Thy Neighbor (Paramount) is the radio quarrel of Comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen transposed to celluloid. On the screen, the comics resemble a pair of choleric Boston terriers-barking insults at each other. Sample gibes...
Besides this radio salary, Benny this year will have a neat income from Paramount Pictures, which will pay him an estimated $200,000 for making a couple of cinemas. Last week, under Paramount auspices, Benny & Co. were shipped to Manhattan for the opening of Love Thy Neighbor, in which Benny and his fellow zany Fred Allen continue the weary mock feud that Allen cooked up four years...
Only fly in Benny's rich ointment last week was his difficulty in collaborating with Fred Allen in the radio promotion of Love Thy Neighbor. Allen is now a rival of Eddie Cantor, who is handled by the same agency that handles Benny. If Benny should team up with Allen on a show, it would obviously do Cantor no good. Consequently the agency would dearly love to squelch the feud it once promoted...
...Carlos Dávila's lady out to Mitchel Field, L. I. With a crew of eight, accompanied by her husband, an Army surgeon and a nurse (Olympia Fumigalli), Señora Dávila took off in her Flying Fortress. By radio she sent her thanks to Neighbor Roosevelt. Three days later. Franklin Roosevelt's big bird of good will deposited grateful Herminia Arrate de Dávila on her own soil again...