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...demonstrated with finality that the new Board superseding Johnsonian control will not have the significance in its relation to industry and the country as a whole as had the old one. But one thing is certain. NRA as administered under the NRB will not be Johnsonian in scope, however gifted its new executive director, Donald R. Richberg, may be. For President Roosevelt's action, despite the installation of an old left-winger as the guide and mentor of his refurbished protege, nevertheless is a symptom of subsiding idealistic fever and return to a more normal if prosaic realistic temperature. When...
...members of the Natural History Society of New York he was also one of the pioneer members of the Audubon Society and was instrumental in the popularization of its work and in the widening of its scope having been associated with it since its earliest days. For the last thirty years he had made his home at Yarmouthpert coming to Boston less and less frequently as the years went...
...newest type of organization, the Student Discount Society, has not yet publicly announced its aims and scope, but it is apparently based upon a mutual organization of merchant members and student members and is aimed at the membership and dividend scheme of the Harvard Cooperative Society. The merchant members will give a 10% discount on purchases made by students who have paid one dollar for a membership card. A certain percentage of the income from the sale of the membership cards is to be used for publicity purposes for the merchants who are members of the Society. However...
Nicholas enjoys his stay with his family, a soft berth offering large scope for his talents. But when they finally find him out for what he is, he realizes that the game is up. He wangles an invitation from a chance acquaintance, departs with Lizzie, leaves unhappiness and tragedy in his wake...
...realize that, since seeing is believing, anything is possible in the cinema. In the DeMillennium of the cinema industry before talkies, DeMille seldom made a picture that cost less than $1,000,000 or one that contained a cast of less than 10,000. By widening the dramatic scope of the cinema, talkies have made spectacles, as such, less satisfying. Youngsters who were in diapers when DeMille was at the peak of his power may sit spellbound before Cleopatra but oldsters who remember his great works with mass in motion will probably feel that, by his own standards...