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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bankrupt, his heartless son Kenneth (Joel McCrea). possessor of a million dollars, having refused to help him. Kenneth, a cautious man when sober, will buy anything when drunk, and the climax of Woman Chases Man is the way in which Miss Travis gets Kenneth's signature to the contract for Nolan Heights. Her efforts are complicated by the connivings of Nina Tennyson (Leona Maricle) whom Kenneth has brought home with him from European travels and who designs to victimize him so that she can live at ease with her true love Henri (Erik Rhodes). To forestall Virginia...
...expectant faces of thousands of men, women and children massed outside the five-mile-long plant's gates. Sharp at 11 p. m. came the deadline which Jones & Laughlin's C. I. O. unionists had set when they voted to strike unless the corporation signed a union contract. Marching out of J. & L. plants both in Aliquippa and Pittsburgh, the unionists shut down the nation's fourth largest steel producer, threw 27,000 men out of work, started the biggest U. S. steel strike since 1919. Next day, 6,000 employes of Pittsburgh Steel Co. struck...
...last week District Judge Guy Leverne Fake denied the Madison Square Garden Corp.'s plea for a temporary injunction to stop the scheduled heavyweight prize fight between Champion James Braddock and Challenger Joe Louis in Chicago on June 22. The court ruled that the Garden's contract with Braddock "places an unreasonable restraint upon his liberty." For the benefit of fight fans who want to keep up with the heavyweight legal tangle, the New York Times's versatile Sportswriter John Kieran submitted this brief at week...
...tight. While a committee headed by President Robert Montgomery negotiated the Guild's demands with representatives of producers, a hundred or more stars gathered nightly at the homes of March, Morris and Cagney to talk strike. Asking nothing for themselves, the Guild's 1,100 high-salaried contract players were out to improve the lot of their 4,500 low-paid associates-extras and bit-players getting less than $250 per week. For them it demanded a union shop, steadier work and better working conditions, minimum pay upped from a current low of $3.20, abolition of the Call...
...informed of the agreement, swarmed to Hollywood's barnlike American Legion Stadium with minds made up about how to mark the strike ballots they were handed at the door. Loud were the cheers when President Montgomery, dog-tired but icy-cool, announced the settlement. Since formal contracts had yet to be signed, and other producers, notably Warner Brothers, had yet to be brought to terms, a strike vote was taken. Bandy-legged Boris Karloff hustled around with a ballot box which he somehow managed to make suggest an infernal machine. The vote was for a strike against any producer...