Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most impressive powwow of cinema bigwigs in a decade. Present were: Barney Balaban (Paramount), Nate J. Blumberg (Universal), Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn (Columbia), Samuel Goldwyn, Maurice Silverstone (United Artists), Nicholas M. Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Sidney R. Kent, Joseph M. Schenck (Twentieth Century-Fox), Leo Spitz (RKO Radio), Albert Warner, Harry M. Warner (Warner Bros.), Will H. Hays...
...Aryan" actresses. When cinema morals were under fire in 1922, the Hays Organization was given the job of raising the standards of personal behavior among cinema performers. Confronted with the problem of their own behavior, producers proposed to establish an organization along somewhat similar lines, for which Chicago Adman Albert Davis Lasker was proposed as unpaid head, to help cinemagnates guide and regulate their private lives...
...Railway has been celebrating its 100th anniversary. But the life of the party has not been punctilious Chairman Josiah Charles, Earon Stamp of Shortlands, G.C.B., G.B.E., K.B.E., C.B.E., nor the still-puffing 100-year-old locomotive Lion. It has been a pursy, 63-year-old Welshman, Traveling Ticket Collector Albert Gwilliams...
...were "almost vicious in their vices," and "Picasso's use of line has form and solidarity (sic!) which can hardly be excelled and his handling of many different bodily postures is expert in the highest degree!" What imbecile would be willing to confess to writing such tripe. Yours truly, Albert K. Cohen...
...Chicago, Inventor Cecil L. Snyder, 45, told his wife, Minnie, that he had thought up a plan that was going to make him $20,000,000. Because they were on relief, Mrs. Snyder promptly asked acting County Judge Albert E. Isley to commit him to an institution. In court the head of Cook County's Psychopathic Hospital and his assistant both testified that Snyder was insane. Taking the case into his own hands, Snyder explained his plan (to sue 28 States for infringement of a system he had invented for registering automobiles), declared it would return $20 for each...