Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time ago in Newton, Iowa, old Fred Maytag, who died in 1937, dedicated a concrete mausoleum to the glory and preservation of dead Maytags. Last week, Chicago Newshawk Robert J. Casey reported from Newton that Maytags now molder in common dust, Iowa winters having weathered away the monumental box. Concluded philosophical Reporter Casey: "Maybe there is something significant about that." Certainly the creator of the Maytag washing machine would not have understood the peace that returned last week to his "City of 12,000 Friendly Folks." C. I. O. workers in the Maytag plant took...
...excited statements last fortnight by the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee (TIME, Aug. 8)-the knockdown, drag-out fight in Tennessee between the team of Senator George L. Berry & Governor Gordon Browning and the team of Senator Kenneth D. McKellar & Boss Ed Crump of Memphis. Coercion of WPAsters, ballot-box stuffing, martial law, shootings, sluggings, kidnappings and general mayhem were anticipated when Chairman Sheppard of the Committee rushed extra agents into Tennessee and announced that whoever won this Senate race would probably have his seat challenged on the floor of the Senate...
Some of California's most substantial citizens stood behind two labor petitions that made the biggest news, promised the bitterest November fights. Nominally sponsored by an organization known as the Women of the Pacific, but advertised in a daily front-page box by the potent Los Angeles Times, was a law providing for compulsory incorporation of unions, publicity of union finances, disqualification from union office of all noncitizens (i. e., Maritime Boss Harry Bridges), civil suits against unions for strike damages, jail sentences up to ten years for disobedient union officers. This proposal has a companion piece aimed...
...Hitchcock (Thirty-Nine Steps) in the department of nightmarish melodrama. For sheer sentiment he is probably no match for pudgy, high-voiced George Cukor (Camille, Holiday). For action pictures he is topped by John Ford (Hurricane), or Victor Fleming (Captains Courageous, Test Pilot). For capitalizing girlish sweetness at the box office, he is certainly no rival to Viennese Henry Koster, imported by Universal two years ago, to whom Deanna Durbin and Danielle Darrieux owe a large part of their current popularity. For urbane, continental sophistication, he is outclassed by Ernst Lubitsch, who last week announced that he would henceforth produce...
...vast majority of U. S. audiences will have found in his troubles, his family and his friends the prototypes of their own. Such cinema families as the Hardys and Twentieth Century-Fox's Joneses are well on their way to developing for modern cinemaddicts the kind of cumulative box office appeal once exercised by old time serials. Good shot: Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) settling a quarrel between his daughter and the cook, who joins the menage halfway through the picture in a manner calculated not to offend cinemaddicts who cannot afford such luxuries...