Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affair was deliberately provoked by union officials. . . . They simply wanted to trump up a charge of Ford brutality. ... I know definitely no Ford service man or plant police were involved in any way in the fight. . . . The union men were beaten by regular Ford employes who were on their way to work. The union men called them 'scabs and cursed and taunted them. A Negro who works in the foundry was goaded and cursed so viciously by one organizer that he turned and struck him. That was the first blow struck...
This Is My Affair (Twentieth Century-Fox) is an engaging specimen of period cinema, dealing with a turn-of-the-century G-Man. Lieutenant Richard L. Perry (Robert Taylor) is secretly assigned by President McKinley to investigate the operations of a band of Midwest bank-robbers whose uncanny efficiency suggests that they are in league with Government officials. Lieutenant Perry gets off to a flying start by falling in love with the gang's most eligible female member, Lil Duryea (Barbara Stanwyck) and is on the way to a brilliant solution of the case when President McKinley is shot...
Producer Darryl Zanuck's interest in history generally and the U. S. gaslight era particularly is by no means pedantic. Nonetheless, if nothing that happens in This Is My Affair, from Lieutenant Perry's correspondence with McKinley to the scandal which he unearths, can be readily substantiated, the background of everything that happens in the picture has a carefully documented and persuasive authenticity. Far more successful than Robert Taylor's rigidly uninspired performance as the hero are those of Robert McWade, Frank Conroy and Sidney Blackmer respectively as Dewey, McKinley and Roosevelt I. Good shot: Roosevelt polishing...
Hardest tournament in the world to win -composed, after the qualifying rounds, of 18-and 36-hole matches between the ablest golf professionals in the U. S.-the Professional Golfers Association Championship at Pittsburgh last week was a serious, businesslike affair. To contestants, it was important not only because of the $10,000 in prizes. The prestige of doing well in the P. G. A. is likely to enlarge a professional golfer's income from other sources. Contestants indulged in no disputes or blunders of behavior. After five days of play, four of the young men whose names appear...
Medicine has controlled their every moment ever since Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe delivered them. Their birthday party this week will be a strictly hygienic affair. They will wear special party dresses with embroidery and ribbons, but their parents Oliva & Elzire Dionne, their five older brothers and sisters who are to eat most of the birthday cake, will be obliged to wear white cotton hospital gowns over their everyday clothes. If any one of them has a cold or even looks ill, he will lose his invitation to the party...