Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provide a medium for distributing and testing new technical ideas, the A. S. C. has become the No. 1 technical club of Hollywood's cameramen. Its 400 members, including almost every important cameraman in the industry, rarely meet but contribute enthusiastically to the society's annual contests. The contests are governed by only two rules: 1) contestants must not have professional assistance; 2) they must not use 35 millimetre film and reduce it to the 8 or 16 millimetre sizes to which the contest is limited. Since it is impossible to detect reduced film, each entry is accompanied...
Although the contest between Arthur W. Todd '35 and Thomas H. Hunter '35 for third marshal was even closer, the recount did not affect their showings...
...baby's corpse was found, the place where pettifogging Boat-Builder John H. Curtis of Norfolk was tried for fraud after he led Col. Lindbergh on a wild goose chase for his son. But even the citizens of Flemington were not prepared for the sort of life & death contest which was about to be staged in their town. The 100-year-old courthouse seats only 250 people in all. More than 400 reporters and special correspondents have applied for seats at the trial. In the little room under the roof, Western Union set up 75 sending machines, Postal...
Things trouble him. In protest against his boss's fondness for locking doors and tearing down office partitions, he distrib uted among his friends a secret supply of pass keys to The New Yorker offices. Once he held a noise-making contest with carpenters and plasterers by rolling metal trash baskets up & down corridors. Stenographers still remember the day when James Thurber powdered his face white, upset the telephone booth, climbed into it, pretended he was a corpse in a coffin...
With the Speakership out of the way the contest for majority Floor Leader to succeed "Uncle Joe" Byrns waxed hot and heavy. All the defeated would-be Speakers were potential candidates for this No. 2 House job, and in addition several others. The Southern Democrats, being perpetually in office, possess by seniority most of the best committee posts: Buchanan of Texas heads Appropriations; Steagall of Alabama, Banking & Currency; Rayburn of Texas, Interstate & Foreign Commerce; Vinson of Georgia, Naval Affairs; McSwain of South Carolina, Military Affairs; Mansfield of Texas. Rivers & Harbors; Rankin of Mississippi, Veterans; Bankhead of Alabama, Rules...