Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...threat of foreign competition. Chairman of the Code Authority is an oldtime copperman, President E. Tappan Stannard of Kennecott, who works side by side with a onetime tool manufacturer, Harry O. King, NRA Divisional Administrator. When the copper market developed into a three-price affair-Blue Eagle, non-Blue Eagle, and regular export copper-President Stannard had to slap a ban on non-Blue Eagle copper which he extended for the second time last week. When scrap producers failed to agree on quotas which the code left to them to divide, Administrator King foisted scrap quotas of his own devising...
...from jail, at 42. The man she loves, John Shadwell (John Boles) marries someone else, under the mistaken impression that Vergie has jilted him. Vergie gives birth to an illegitimate daughter named Joan. John and his rancid wife Laura (Helen Vinson) adopt Joan. Gossip about Vergie's protracted affair with John causes the ladies of Parkville to boycott Vergie's millinery store. Her landlord ups the rent and Vergie's radio breaks down...
Postponing yesterday's game makes this afternoon's affair the opener of the series, and that means that Coach Smoky Joe Wood of the Elis will probably use his No. 1 moundsmen, Captain George Parker, to uphold the pitching end for Yale According to the original schedule, Coach Fred Mitchell of the Crimson was figuring to reserve his best twirler, Captain Eddie, Loughlin, for the second game. But right now the chances are that Mitch will stretch everything to win this battle before the Old Grads...
Captain Andrew Kerr (Colin Clive) is a British officer stationed at Dublin. His friend Captain Tennant (William Powell), who has had an affair with Mrs. Kerr (Edna Best) before her marriage, attempts to revive it when they meet again. Captain Kerr finds out about this the evening he gets back from capturing Sinn Fein Leader Pedar Conlan. Dejected, he stumps out of his house and into a Sinn Fein ambush which enables Tennant to make a handsome gesture. He forges an order for the release of Conlan, obtains the release of Captain Kerr in exchange, lights a cigaret...
...School at 29. A shining disciple of Justice Brandeis, he is regarded in Washington as the brilliant leader of the small minority of New Dealers who are true economic radicals. As chairman of the new Commission he would dominate its proceedings and make its administration a strict and stern affair for the stock trade...