Word: davids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania. Franklin Roosevelt recently said that Pennsylvania's Democratic primary campaign reminded him of Dante's Inferno. Suave Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence had refused to support the United Mine Workers' Secretary, Thomas Kennedy, for Governor. So Senator Joe Guffey and Miner John L. Lewis formed an alliance to unseat the regular Democratic organization. Not only did Guffey-Lewis back Miner Kennedy against the organization's gubernatorial candidate, a mild, mustached Pittsburgh lawyer named Charles Alvin Jones. They also supported Philadelphia's mud-slinging ex-Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson against Governor George Earle...
...retired in 1918. Her only recent connection with the theatre has been as professor of drama at Stephens College, Columbia. Mo. Recently, 65-year-old Maude Adams went to Culver City, Calif., took a screen test. Last week the result was announced: Miss Adams will star in a picture David Selznick plans to produce next fall. Said proud Cinemogul Selznick: "It will be a privilege to introduce her for the first time to the millions of the new generation...
Veteran Producer David Wark Griffith's 23-year-old The Birth of a Nation is the most famous motion picture ever made. When the film was first released in 1915, its vindictive story of Reconstruction race hatred and avenging Klansmen roused considerable passion. Manhattan Negroes secured the elimination of several scenes that contained an "appeal to race prejudice." In Washington, during the Anti-Lynching Bill filibuster last winter (TIME, Jan. 24), it was picketed off a local screen...
...plant. This time National Power's preferred stockholders thought the price was too low. Mr. Mynatt went on higgling and resumed work on the plant. Fortnight ago his price was $7,500,000. Last week he went to Washington to confer with Paul Sawyer of National Power and David Lilienthal of TVA. raised his bid $400,000. At last they called it a deal. TVA puts up a third of the price, gets all T. P. S. lines outside of Knox County...
...Chairman Harcourt Morgan and I are gratified at the outcome of this negotiation," said David Lilienthal. "This contract encourages me to believe that in the near future in other pending situations in the Tennessee Valley region, contracts of this character may likewise take the place of litigation and conflict, so that all of us can devote ourselves wholly to constructive work...