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...Hollywood problem play, tries earnestly to take sides on a controversial question without offending anyone. A well-to-do wheat farmer has two sons. One of them, Walt Martin (Richard Arlen) stays at home, marries a neighbor's daughter, begets twins and tours his fields happily in a tractor. Walt's older brother Chris (Chester Morris) goes to Chicago, makes a fortune speculating in wheat, marries the egotistical daughter (Genevieve Tobin) of the richest speculator in the Pit. When wheat prices go down and foreclosed mortgages-without which even a problem play about a farm would be incomplete...
...life unlocked usually have one gate sadly ajar, making it necessary to wedge one's way in or squirm through surreptiously. The conditions in the Houses are even worse during the regular college year. There are many fine portals that open only once a year to admit the tractor that hauls the wooden board walks. Enough of cloistering. R. A. Briggs...
...imposing new Severance Hall (TIME, Feb. 16, 1931). Nor will his Connecticut farm be an undisturbed haven this summer. Italian laborers were jabbering all over the grounds one afternoon last week. Sokoloff shed his coat, pushed his hat on the back of his head and mounted a tractor. Guests who dropped in for cocktails were set to work, too. Violinist Ruth Breton, wearing white gloves, was given a sickle to manipulate. Ample Soprano Emily Roosevelt,* dressed up in chiffon, was given a hoe. Tenor Mario Chamlee climbed up on the tractor beside Conductor Sokoloff-to help him break ground...
...winter sports for the Xth Olympiad included bob-sled racing, hitherto practiced only in the Alps. The run cost $250,000, most of which was supplied by New York State. Last week most of the ablest licensed* bob-sled drivers in the U. S. climbed into a steam-heated tractor-truck at the bottom of the slide, had themselves carried up to the top for the start of the North American Championships...
...Scattered sparingly instead throughout the catalog are neat seals: "Recommended by Ward's Bureau of Standards." But there is still the same harping on the economy of mail-order retailing, the same half-page cuts of lusty steamfitters in immaculate "Super-Pioneer" workshirts, the same "build-your-own" tractor from a Model T Ford...