Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hines Woodring (and after a talk with Franklin Roosevelt), House & Senate conferees on the Army's pending $366,250,000 rearmament authorization bill dropped an amendment tacked on by Majority Leader Barkley. The Army opposed it and Labor wanted it because it would have kept any national defense contract from being awarded any bidder who refused to bargain with his workers collectively. Although friendly Senators offered to limit its effects to firms actually convicted of violating the Wagner Act, the War Department and House committeemen would have none...
...thing that can arouse good musicians from their usual torpor, it is the mention of Mr. Clinton's name, the reason being that he is the most unadulterated copyist extant. He was put where he is because a high executive of a record company had him under personal contract and spared no pains to see that his investment was protected. In regard to his copying, examine "Fon To You" and you will find "Don't Be That Way" and "If Dreams Come True" in full splendor; "Dodging The Dean is made up of "Blue Skies" (Benny Goodman's arrangement...
PITTSBURGH-Trustees of the University of Pittsburg tonight gave Charles W. (Chisel) Bowser a 3-year contract as head coach of the University's football team and at the same time appointed a committee to investigate Pitt's "athletic situation...
Last fortnight Executive Editor Wood told Cartoonist Kirby that his contract, which expires April 1, would not be renewed. To the man who once said: "Scripps-Howard and Joseph Pulitzer seem to have the same ideas," Mr. Wood added: "That's your wish...
...Roach which he held for a decade. In 1933 he went to Paramount, earned a place as one of the industry's top-notch directors with Ruggles of Red Gap, Make Way for Tomorrow. In 1937 The Awful Truth won him the Academy Prize for direction, an RKO contract as producerdirector, of which Love Affair is the first result...