Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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H. L. Hamilton, who sold G. M. on the idea of going into the business and has been smart enough to carry on as Electro-Motive's president, explains: each oil-burning Diesel switcher brings its purchaser an average yearly operating saving of about $17,000. Sour-grapes reason...
Last Friday 18 directors of General Electric Co. marched solemnly into the green Directors' Room on the 48th floor of G.E.'s pink Manhattan skyscraper. They sat through the reading of the minutes. Then, white-haired, sparky G.E. President Gerard Swope rose to his full five feet four...
The Cat and the Canary (Paramount). This old chiller-diller, which has as many lives as a cat, haunted Broadway for a long run, has twice before been made into a movie. Paramount has brushed off some of the cobwebs, draped some bigger, stickier ones for harassed Heroine Paulette Goddard...
If there is a movie fan living who does not know who killed Lawyer Crosby in the wall behind the bookcase, The Cat and the Canary has been imitated often enough for even cinemamateurs to detect The Cat by its feline smile, before it gets the bird.
"The brains of the Confederacy" was moonfaced, wily Judah P. Benjamin. An unusual character in other respects, Benjamin arrived in New Orleans with $4 after being mysteriously kicked out of Yale in his third year, quickly rose to be one of the most successful lawyers of his day, a Senator...