Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producers, a hundred or more stars gathered nightly at the homes of March, Morris and Cagney to talk strike. Asking nothing for themselves, the Guild's 1,100 high-salaried contract players were out to improve the lot of their 4,500 low-paid associates-extras and bit-players getting less than $250 per week. For them it demanded a union shop, steadier work and better working conditions, minimum pay upped from a current low of $3.20, abolition of the Call Bureau...
...practically standing still now. The ropes have been dropped and they have been taken hold of by a number of men on the field. It is starting to rain again. The rain had slacked up a little bit. The back motors of the ship are holding it just enough to keep...
...Italian returns, raps on the shutters and lets in the sun; and bunch by bunch takes the truant roses to the fountain to wash their sleepy faces, splashing water also on his own, does he ever guess their night's sweet escapade? I suspect he does, but being a bit of a poet himself says nothing: only this little song: "Roses, Roses, Roses: Fresh, young roses." At least so it seems...
...Business to the Consumer (TIME, Sept. 28). Said he: "You cannot blame Management for expecting a note of responsibility to enter into such [collective bargaining] negotiations. . . . Industry invites-yes, eagerly welcomes-Labor's co-operation in the complicated problems confronting us. But Labor needs to visualize a bit more the predicament facing Management...
...syndicated column for the Herald-Tribune, and Mr. George G. Zabriskic has crystallized in his recent letter to the Alumni Bulletin a good deal of conservative Harvard resentment toward some of the recent utterances of the Dean-designate, the question "Is Landis really the man?" needs a bit of public airing. For to many who were profoundly pleased at the selection of Mr. Landis a few months ago, on the basis of his brilliant legal thinking and his diplomatic handling of the S.E.C., it comes as distinct shock that the new Dean of the Law School has shown doubts about...