Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members-writers, actors, technicians, production executives, directors. Its main concern is the welfare of the cinema industry. Dissenters regard it as a company union since producers used it two years ago as a weapon to defeat Equity's attempt to organize cinemactors. Annually, each of the five Academy branches selects five nominees in its own branch for an award of merit. The five highest nominations are then submitted for balloting to the entire membership. The winners get gold-washed statuettes of a nude young...
...errands, distributed pamphlets, drummed up recruits among the factories. Communists trusted E. W. Esselwein. He did not trust his memory but wrote everything down. Later he was chosen secretary of the Regina branch of the Communist party and had the job of handling the code messages of the secret Z branch of the party...
Firmly gripping the rail of the witness stand Sergeant Leonard testified that the secret Z branch of the Communist party had been voluntarily given up in 1927. At the beginning Canadian Communists were subsidized from Moscow. To spread Soviet propaganda Moscow sent them $3,000 (little more than a U. S. manufacturer would spend for one full-page advertisement in the New York Sunday Times). When Canada reported a membership of 5,000, Moscow replied that the organization ought to be self-supporting in future and promptly scolded the Canadian comrades "for deficiency in boxing and stone throwing," suggested morning...
...stand by my statement. I'm surprised at the suggestion of the President that he himself will appoint a committee to investigate a matter touching administrative policy, in view of the fact that Congress is the investigating branch of the Government. Naturally I would welcome a thoroughly impartial investigation...
...Georges' memory. A combination of wildness and character, however, led her to such kind lengths that one fine day she had a little bastard baby. As her story closes she is holding together what is left of the oH Herries household against the machinations of a spiteful younger branch...