Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours a day or five days a week could move in interstate commerce. Penalty: $200 fine and three months imprisonment. Exempt from the law were newspapers, magazines, farms, railroads, dairies, canneries of perishable foods. Company officers, executives, superintendents and their personal assistants were likewise free to work as they chose...
...Doctors at Dallas chose Dec. 3 as the "memorial day for Pan-American medicine." Dec. 3 is the birthday of the late Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay, Cuban, who indicted the mosquito which Dr. Walter Reed later proved transmitted yellow fever...
...post; whether last week's move was an attempt to oust him or merely a step in the current trend to decentralize studio authority. First official act of Vice President Selznick was to announce an all-star cast, even more prodigious than the one which Thalberg last year chose for Grand Hotel, for MGM's forthcoming production of Dinner at Eight: Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, Madge Evans, John Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Jean Hersholt, Louise Closser Hale. Grant Mitchell, May Robson, Karen Morley...
...complete the job of putting Avco on a paying basis, Mr. Cord last week chose a board of nine, himself included. Two were Cord executives: Vice President Lucius B. Manning of Cord Corp.; Major Lester Draper ("Bing") Seymour, a small, genial disciplinarian who flew with the A. E. F. and who has been president of American Airways since December. Two were Cord lawyers: stocky General Counsel Raymond S. Pruitt; Lyndol L. Young, who grew up with Cord in Los Angeles, hunted squirrels with him on the site of the Ambassador Hotel, graduated from the University of Southern California...
...great fashion books of the country play up the slightest innovation at New Haven and Princeton, while what the men of Cambridge are wearing is neither interesting nor original. And who can wonder at this, when a hundred odd undergraduates, representing a cross-section of the University, chose such a dilapidated and absolutely worthless hat as rests upon its plush cushion in Boston as the Master Hat of Harvard, the result of a recent publicity stunt of a local humorous publication? The layman of the street, and his wife, stare at the apparition in its pose of state, and with...