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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bridges would have none of it. He would have no strings attached to his hiring halls. And, if the Supreme Court should rule them illegal, that would .be the end of any contract with Harry Bridges. When the shipowners rejected his demands, Bridges stalked out, flung back: "See you on the picket lines tomorrow...
...Russian talk was the kind governments use to justify a "premeditated military attack." If the Communists really believed all of Fadeev's charges, snapped Hovde, "then my own people can only judge itself terribly threatened and unite in preparation for the worst." Oxford Don A.J.P. Taylor, whose BBC contract was canceled because he was too "pro-Russian," told the Russians: "The first duty of intellectuals is to be intelligent...
When the Saturday Evening Post learned that Collier's had signed up the star coaches, it angrily tore up its own contract with the Football Coaches' Association, which had picked the Post's All-Americas. This week, while the Post looked for substitutes, Collier's calmly prepared to add the association to its list of pickers. Even without Granny Rice's autograph on it, Collier's appeared to have recovered the ball...
...expecting to see any bright lights," warned Perry Carmichael, once an Oklahoma City teacher, and now Emperor Haile Selassie's director of elementary education. But he did promise 20? butter, 40? chickens, a three-year contract with a starting salary of $3,000 to $4,500 a Year (Oklahoma City's starting salary: $2,000). Besides, he said reassuringly, Haile Selassie is "as amiable as an Oklahoman." The emperor promised to pay passage over, but anyone returning within the first three years will have to pay his or her own way back...
Greta Garbo, whose last movie was Two-Faced Woman for M-G-M in 1941, last week signed a contract to appear in one picture for Producer Walter Wanger. In the Garbo tradition, everybody connected with the deal promptly clammed up or looked studiously vague. Wanger, who first knew the shy Swede-when he produced Queen Christina for M-G-M in the '30s, admitted that it will probably be a period piece (know-it-alls said a biography of George Sand), shot "in Paris and Rome." Said Wanger, vaguely: "I had a couple of ideas she liked...