Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stop the C. I. O. invasion of his domain. Last winter, Dave Beck's Oregon lieutenant, Portland Teamster Al Rosser, and some 100 henchmen were rounded up, indicted for crimes varying from bombing to arson. Last week, Rosser awaited sentence for arson in the burning down of a box factory whose owners refused to sign up with...
...jury retired for a decision. In 40 minutes it was back in the box. The verdict: Acquittal...
...Last week, on the day after the first anniversary of Gershwin's death, the Philharmonic joined forces with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, played the fifth Gershwin Memorial concert to be heard during the past year.* If the performance, bolstered by names from radio and cinema, was a box-office draw such as the stadium periodically needs, it was also, to an eager and uncritical audience, a moving tribute to a well-loved U. S. musician...
Holding no television broadcasting license. Educator-Entrepreneur Evans carries his pictures from M. I. T.'s second-story studio to its street-level showroom by wire. Amateur talent on the first show included Boston's Mayor Maurice Joseph Tobin. Professional performers will be hired only if the box office take is large enough to pay salaries. President Evans does not expect his theatre to survive Boston's first curiosity to see television pictures. Said he: "I've always practiced the reduction of ideas to practice...
...There is no magic in the formula of 'Federally financed' public works. The National Government has not tapped some mysterious source of funds, or taken money from a box where it was stored for a rainy day. The National Government has no spending power whatever except that which it acquires by taxing its citizens, and every dollar in 'Federal funds' that has been received by 'Kentucky and other States' will be repaid by the people of Kentucky and the other States-with interest. There is no Santa Claus in Washington...