Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polishing her English, training her speaking voice, observing Hollywood ways. She swam, batted tennis balls, expertly-played her piano, stole the show at a few beauty-ridden Hollywood parties, to which she was squired at times by Rudy Vallee, Howard Hughes and lately by Actor Reginald Gardiner. When last April Producer Wanger borrowed her from M.G.M. for Algiers, it was discovered that she would require padding to fill out her bust -a deficiency no cinemogler had noted in Extase. In her first seven months in Hollywood, 23-year-old, five-foot-seven Hedy had lost...
...major source for the cellulose is "dissolving pulp," wood pulp processed further than for making newsprint. Last week, the largest "dissolving pulp" company in the world, Rayonier Inc., announced "the highest earnings in the history of the company and its predecessors"-$3,124,703 for the twelve months ended April 30; this was almost a million more than for the previous twelve months...
...famed case of the Scottsboro Boys, the original charge was rape in a freight gondola, the ultimate issue was Alabama justice. Of the nine Negroes accused, four were acquitted, four sentenced to long jail terms, one sentenced to death (TIME, April 20, 1931, et seq.). Last week Alabama justice yielded another inch. Governor Bibb Graves commuted the death sentence of Clarence Norris, now 25, to life imprisonment. In Manhattan, the International Labor Defense, which in 1933 brought in Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz to defend the Boys,* declared: "The boy is innocent. This doesn't close the case. We will...
Most baseballers agree that Bill Mc-Kechnie, 50-year-old Methodist churchman, has done the most astounding managerial job in the major leagues this year. Signed last winter to manage last year's last-place Reds, Bill McKechnie transformed them from a 40-to-1 shot in April to a pennant possibility at midseason. On the Fourth of July, traditional halfway mark in the pennant race, the Reds last week were in fourth place, but were leading the National League in club batting average, had the leading pitcher (Vander Meer), leading batter (Lombardi), leading homerun hitter (Goodman, whose...
...time competed with W. N. U. in selling feature boiler plate, Mr. Perry has long sought control of W. N. U. Two years ago, he barely missed it when W. N. U. called off a plan to throw itself into 77-B bankruptcy to scale down interest payments (TIME, April 27, 1936). Last month, he bought enough voting trust certificates and common stock shares to give him controlling interest, was elected president of W. N. U. to succeed Herbert Henry Fish who had served for 20 years. W. N. U. Directors R. Hosken Damon and Homer M. Preston...