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Filmed mostly in Rome and Florence in 1938-40 by Swiss Producer Curt Oertel, the original version of The Titan was snapped up by German companies and palmed off as a product of Nazi Kultur. After the U.S. Army discovered the film in France, a copy found its way to Manhattan and caught the paternal eye of Robert J. Flaherty, whose classic Nanook of the North (1922) made him the granddaddy of documentary movies. Flaherty set out to get the picture's U.S. rights...
...chair is named in honor of Samuel Hazzard Cross '12, chairman of the Slavic Department at Harvard for many years, who died in 1925. The money for the chair was contributed in two gifts of $150,000 each by Mr. Curt Reisinger of New York City, and in other contributions from Cross's friends...
Occasionally John L.'s phone would jangle with news of another victory. Big John would dictate to a press aide a curt communique which concluded with a half-hopeful, half-commanding "More tonnage will sign." The press covered U.M.W. like a military HQ. Almost every night last week, U.M.W. was able to report to the newsmen that another company or two had agreed to boost pay (from $14.05 to $15 a day) and increase royalties for the miners' welfare fund (from 20? to 35? a ton). Lewis, unable to beat the ganged-up might of coal-industry leaders...
...President William Green as "the able Mr. Green," and to propose that Green and Lewis chip in $2,500,000 a week for the striking steelworkers (Green's A.F.L. was to put up nine-tenths of the money). Last week after he had gotten his answer (a curt no thanks), the mineworkers' president got off another letter to Bill Green...
...gift of $300,000 by Curt H. Reisinger '12, New York financier, for he establishment of the Samuel Hazzard Cross Professorship of Slavic Languages and Literatures was announced last night by Provost Buck...