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...more than "a gigantic hoax on the Senate and the people." To a chamber dotted with only half a dozen members, Morse proclaimed in his best monotone: "This country does not need, and should not seek, perpetual dependents anywhere in the world . . . Aid in this pattern may help to prop up an irresponsible government which professes friendship for this country and natters the administrators of this program. Sooner or later, however, the people of this country will pay a terrible price for this unmitigated folly." Herman Talmadge settled for less erudition and more emotion. Warming up to the spellbinding oratory...
...previously been a stagecoach driver, undertaker, deputy sheriff. Bedding manufacturers snapped at his scheme, and by 1910 were producing 250,000 Murphy beds a year. But the bed became far more than just a commercial success when the budding movie colony saw in it a hilarious prop for slapstick comedy. By the mid-1920s, Murphy and his disappearing bed had beaten off imitators right and left in bitter patent battles; he finally emerged with a fortune and his own distributing company in New York...
...prop up the slipping Argentine peso (now down to 40 to the dollar at the free rate). Aramburu last week got a $75 million loan from the International Monetary Fund. To draw the dollars. Argentina must post an equivalent sum in pesos (figured at the official rate of 18 to the dollar) and within three to five years must repurchase the pesos with dollars at the same ratio...
...prolific Georges Feydeau with the collaboration of Maurice Desvallieres, is exceedingly standard and exceedingly French French farce. This means sex first, but not in the long run foremost. In such goings-on, slapstick and speed become a good deal more important than spice. The bed is only a prop; the actual objective is bedlam...
...technical proficiency of most of the productions is impressive in view of the fact that everybody had to work with only such props as they could find in New Haven or bring along, and with no sets at all. It may be symptomatic of something or other that the most effective single prop used in any of the plays was a coffin which Mount Holyoke brought for its production of Finnegans Wake...