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Cordell Hull is a plain man who likes to shed his vest, prop his feet up on his desk. His level brown eyes are more emphatic than his thin, slightly pouting lips. Occasionally he breaks his long, cautiously qualified sentences with salty profanity. A cerebral personality, he takes no exercise, gets his relaxation in solitary study...
...indescribable picture," said a rescuer who helped prop one wing up with fenceposts to drag out victims. "Men were crying, 'Get me out!' and 'Oh, God, why doesn't somebody do something...
Cuban rebels considered the Hoover Administration the chief prop of President Machado's regime. Prematurely last week they rejoiced at the inauguration of President Roosevelt, no friend to violence...
Three days later S. J. R. 256 was whipped through the House in 40 minutes by a vote of 241-to-4 and hastily signed by President Hoover. Only then did it emerge on front pages as a new prop for sagging Public Confidence...
...when Directors James Flood and Elliott Nugent seem to have forgotten that ''Don't confuse the issue" is as good a motto for films as for maternity hospitals. There are too many scenes showing a mother's pleased surprise on first viewing her offspring, too many shots of prop infants wrapped in blankets. Despite these faults and a theme which is a little too obviously dripping with drama, Life Begins, first release on Warner Brothers' 1932-33 production program, manages to be tender without being mawkish, sympathetic without being sentimental. Good shot: a nurse (Aline MacMahon) telling Sutton what...