Word: council
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rats had a simple case, which they naively expected the council to treat as a moral problem. Four As, for reasons which it considered good and sufficient, recently threw out the subsidiary American Federation of Actors (vaudeville, night clubs, circus, etc.) and A. F. A.'s Executive Secretary Ralph Whitehead. Alert Mr. Browne promptly rechartered A. F. A. as a subsidiary of his union, with authority to snatch cinemactors from Ralph Morgan's Screen Actors Guild, singers from Mr. Tibbett's American Guild of Musical Artists, stage actors from potent Actors' Equity Association, any & all performers...
...outrageous piece of banditry. . . . On what meat does this our Caesar feed? . . . This stock company Hitler should, must be hobbled. . . ." Unhobbled Mr. Browne did not vote, otherwise participated as one union politician among others. The legitimate theatre, the cinema industry, the financial interests involved lobbied fiercely to get the council to settle matters without a jurisdictional strike of Rats on Brownies or vice versa...
Threatened with a wholesale bolt to C. I. O., the council decided this week to give jurisdiction of former A. F. A. members back to the actors, then got down to saving what face it could for Councilman Browne and Secretary Whitehead...
Last week Señor Serrano Suñer won another round when Generalissimo Franco shook up the Cabinet and the Falange, now the only legal political organization in Spain. Already Minister of the Interior, Serrano Suñer became president of the policy-making Falangist Council and acquired the portfolios of Public Order, Sanitation and Health. His most potent rival within the Falange, anti-Italian, conservative Raimundo Fernández Cuesta, lost his jobs as Secretary of the Falange and Minister of Agriculture. An even more important scalp was that of Foreign Minister General Count Francisco...
...selling price (98). Of this sum the Morgan firm received $66,000. From its 1% commission as purchasing agent for England and France Morgan & Co. got $30,000,000. All that ended when the U. S. entered the War, when Davison became chairman of the Red Cross War Council, and Stettinius became second assistant Secretary of War, when the U. S. Treasury took over the job of Allied banker...