Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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He killed the sales tax, substituted income and liquor taxes. With Governor Byrd's Virginia as his model, he reorganized the State government, abolishing 130 boards and commissions, consolidating 119 divisions into 22, including a new Department of Welfare. Aided by largesse from Washington, he balanced his budget, attacked...
Now research professor in Harvard's department of architecture, of which Walter Gropius is chairman, Breuer is, like Gropius, a creator of the international school of architecture. And like most internationalists, he is restless, widely traveled, had roamed over Europe, settled in England, when he packed up to follow...
Died. Dennis Francis Kelly, 69, self-made Chicago philanthropist, good Catholic lay leader, retired president of The Fair (department store); of pneumonia; in Bergen, Norway.
When Mr. Zukor made his prediction, cinema production, distribution and exhibition were largely separate. But a struggle for control of the industry was developing between producers and exhibitors. Such producers as Paramount got into exhibition; such exhibitors as Loew's got into production. With ever-increasing clamor during recent...
In 1918, Cinemagnate Adolph Zukor wrote: "The evil of producing and exhibiting coalitions is one of the gravest perils that has ever confronted the motionpicture industry. For some time past this condition has been developing and now threatens to halt the industry's progress. . . ." Last week this prediction came...