Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allows the President to change existing tariffs by as much as fifty per cent. Since 1934 scores of reciprocal trade treaties have been made which encourage foreign trade and still do as little harm as possible to interests within the country...
...reliable plank in anyone's party platform. The "best people" have embraced it almost as a religion, claiming that it is the solution to every evil in government, while radicals have sneered that it is a false issue, a handful of dust thrown in the eyes of America. Still, every practical politician has had to pay it at least lip service, until now it has become a political cliche. Thus relegated to an obscure corner of the political circus, civil service reform is none the less active as a quiet, unobtrusive agency of the government. A welcome sign...
Katia (Mayer-Burstyn) is a leisurely, Frenchified version of a Cecil B. deMille luxury film, which gives girlishly graceful Danielle Darrieux, in the title role, opportunity to be the intimate of still another European prince. In Mayerling, she was the mistress of Austrian Archduke Rudolf. In Katia she is the morganatic wife of Russian Emperor Alexander...
Riding for the Battery in a race, Tubby smashes up and spends months in a hospital, where he has time for unaccustomed cerebration. "Daddy" visits him, troubles him with bitter gibes at the caste-ridden army system. "Sammy" comes and perturbs him still more with philosophical questionings. Recovered, Tubby feels like making love to Lydia, a sophisticated beauty of Belgrave Square. She tells him that what he needs is a nice, kind widow...
...addition to proving that Venske can outpace Cunningham in spite of the legendary explosive final spurt of the veteran miler, and that Lash is still as strong as ever in the two mile, the Veterans of Foreign Wars meet at Boston Garden Saturday night gave a part of the track team a chance to show it was headed in the right direction...