Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed without a roll call the bill extending until Dec. 31, 1941 the authority of the Government to make soil conservation payments direct to farmers instead of allocating the funds for administration by individual States after Dec. 31 as provided in the Soil Conservation Act. Sent it to the President...
...after reading it, begged Producer Goldwyn to take their names off it, returned the money he had paid them. Director William Wyler, who had been given a vacation with all expenses paid, returned to Goldwyn $25,000 advanced to him in salary and expense money to be let off directing it. Miriam Hopkins offered to pay anything in reason not to star in it, at length agreed to give in and work if Goldwyn got Gregory LaCava to direct. Goldwyn got LaCava, but after reading the script LaCava left the lot. Andrea Leeds, a bit player, announced that she would...
...real source of its strength. If he does not function, the machine decays. If he quits, the machine dies. He is the actual connecting link between the people and the organization, and he is the only connecting link-the only man in the machine who has any point of direct contact with the voters, who knows anything about them, who has any real influence with them...
Divorced. Funnyman Ed Wynn (Israel Edwin Leopold), 50; by Hilda Keenan Wynn, daughter of the late Actor Frank Keenan; in Reno, Nev. She won $300 a week alimony. Funnyman Wynn charged that his wife was an incurable dipsomaniac, intoxicated "95%" of the time when not under direct medical care, for which he had spent...
...Washington last week the Interstate Commerce Commission heard with apparent favor Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's plan to acquire direct control of the Erie and Nickel Plate to tighten two loose strands in the old Van Sweringen network. C. & O.'s past connections with another strand, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, meanwhile came under the pained scrutiny of Montana's Senator Wheeler and his committee investigating railroad finance. The evidence provided the Senator with his best illustration to date of how the late exceptional Brothers "Van" dummied their way through deal after deal to get what they wanted in spite...