Word: questions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Question. Last week, when Republican leaders assembled in Washington, correspondents were surprised to find that the biggest question was: What will Herbert Hoover do? General agreement was that at next year's convention he will control at least 200 of the 1,000 delegates. Of course the Republicans agreed that 1940 would see the New Deal's end. But general agreement, not only in Washington D. C., but in Oregon, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, etc., was that, with stage set, audience waiting, superspectacle prepared-with a fine cast of characters, a wonderful story, a happy ending-the star performer...
...Dinner-when slights did not work, they tried to make him an Elder Statesman; when he still refused to go away, they agreed hastily that he was the ablest U. S. Republican, while they canvassed busily for somebody else. In spite of all, last week in Washington the biggest question among Republicans remained: What will Herbert Hoover...
With the New Deal's emergency measures for recovery he would not quarrel. But because a nation's greatest moral, spiritual, economic and governmental change is involved in a shift in its fundamental social ideas, the big question remained: Does the New Deal represent such a shift? Said Herbert Hoover: "This is solely an issue. Honest men will treat it as such." Analyzing New Deal policies in currency, in finance, in agriculture he found such a change; a similar change in its insistence that the U. S. social system is outworn and in its tendency to increasing regimentation...
...Smith Goes to Washington, turns in as good a performance or better as Thomas Jefferson Destry. Marlene Dietrich, as Frenchy, the bad girl of the Last Chance saloon, turns in her best performance since the somewhat similar role in The Blue Angel brought her to Hollywood. To the thrilling question-could Dietrich come back via the western trail?-her bottle-tossing, eye-rolling and shoulder-shrugging, her singing (in a whiskey mezzo) of Little Joe and The Boys in the Backroom supplied the answer. Dietrich has. She makes it dazzlingly clear that the Dietrich legs, once more unsheathed, will still...
...having high regard for any writers except the dead. Unlike the Rockefellers, the Morgans nave not gone in for personal pressagentry; neither have they unbosomed themselves to historians. Consequently, the chief books on the elder Morgan, able in other respects, are either obscure or theatrical on the interesting question of how Morgan felt about being Morgan...