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...story is adapted from the novel by Pierre Louys, "Les Aventures du Roi Pausole." When the picture opens, the island is already dominated by Taxis, the King's eunuch, who has introduced a strict regime of order and repression. Then a young aviator blunders upon the place and naturally falls in love with Pausole's daughter. To escape Taxis' prying eyes, she flees from the palace and is followed by the aviator. Setting out, ostensibly to find his daughter, the King discovers that one wife is better than 366, especially if that one be the lovely Sidney Fox. The remaining...
...inter-company service contracts will be abrogated next January, and service, sales and construction affiliates, often a seat of nepotism and a source of unconscionable personal profits, will be placed under the Federal Power Commission's strict supervision. By 1937 no holding company may own both domestic and foreign properties unless economically and geographically justified-a direct hit on Electric Bond & Share, whose foreign holdings are grouped in American & Foreign Power and include Shanghai's biggest dynamos. Natural gas properties must be divorced, hitting particularly Columbia Gas & Electric and Electric Power & Light. Restriction of holding companies to ownership...
...carriers on an even competitive footing by authorizing strict and impartial Interstate Commerce Commission regulation of railroads, buses, ships, trucks, airlines, pipelines...
Time was when Robert Nathan toyed gently and amiably with his congenital melancholia. Always a writer who preferred fantasy to strict realism, he once put his deepest convictions into the mouths of dancing dogs, unwed mice and such philosophical creatures as Isaiah, the stoic horse of The Woodcutter's House. When he was not bringing wisdom out of the mouths of baby tumblebugs and suckling pigs, he was engaged in mild satires on religion (The Bishop's Wife, There Is Another Heaven). But Depression, if it did not quite succeed in bringing him down to solid earth...
...others will be tolerated, and that considerable money can be saved by restricting the System to those who will profit by it. The System must not be allowed to degenerate into a large-scale cramming outfit. But there is far more danger that an order from above imposing strict regulations as to hours and material to be covered will make of the Tutorial Conference a routine appointment. A careful reading of Dean Murdock's Report gives a distinct impression that the fundamental issue is being confused. Granted the reality of the pitfalls he is seeking to prevent--the point...