Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week Senator Joseph T. Robinson emerged from the White House. He was met by reporters who asked him about the President's bill for enlarging the Supreme Court. In his capacity as leader of the Senate Majority who had just spent two hours with the head of his Party, he made answer...
...measure will be proceeded with and it is expected that action will be taken on it during the present session. Aside from the provisions that relate to the Supreme Court, other features of the bill are to be regarded as of vital importance. It is felt that during the last few months some changes have occurred which modify the situation, but there still exists the necessity for the injection of new blood into the Court...
...Jack Dempsey-you know Jack Dempsey, of course-taught me how to duck. And who should know better how to teach anybody to duck than Jack Dempsey? After that, I don't know what happened. ... I suddenly looked around and there was Bill Wright, the sweetest man that God ever made, lying on the sidewalk, all bloodied. . . . They took us over to the police station. And then I want to tell you that the sweetest thing that ever has happened in my life happened right then. I looked up and there was Sherman Billingsley and Mac from...
Allied is fighting block-booking by both national and State legislation. Before Congress in Washington is the Neely-Pettengill bill which outlaws block-booking. Last year the bill stuck in committee. This year Lawyer Abram Fern Myers, onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, is trying to drive it through. Meanwhile Al Steffes is leading the drive for State legislation to outlaw block-booking and to divorce theatre ownership from producers and distributors. Such bills of divorcement bogged down in Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska and Illinois. One did pass in North Dakota, where it goes into effect in a year...
Allied's third big objective, outlined at the convention, is to strike at the "big boys" through legislation to tax theatre chains just as chain groceries are now taxed in Louisiana (TIME, May 31). A model tax bill was presented basing the tax on the number of seats. Above 500 the tax would be 5? a seat, above 1,000 10? a seat, etc., etc. If adopted, such legislation would hurt many members of the Allied States Association,, but, said Al Steffes last week, "big independent chains should be curbed...