Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers. Instead broadcasters will offer selections from the 200,000 tunes corralled by Broadcast Music, Inc. since it was set up last year as a rival to ASCAP. Among those will be plenty of Latin-American ballads, many a song from the public domain (56 years is the copyright deadline), a handful of current favorites like Practice Makes Perfect, one of the very few hits uncovered to date...
...Court of Appeals. If he loses, he may wait until the rule is again involved and sue in some other court. A series of individuals might sue again & again over the same rule. An epidemic in Federal territory could not be quarantined, forest fires on the public domain might not be fought, without public hearings and advance notice; and endless quagmires of litigation could follow...
...been the No. i aerial gossip of Hollywood. Thrice weekly over a CBS network she has broadcast tittle-tattle about celluloid hotshots, under the sponsorship of the California Fruit Growers Exchange. Supplementing her syndicated newspaper column, Hedda's program has helped her to move in on the domain of Louella Parsons, Hearst's quidnunc extraordinary, who used to have Hollywood in her pudgy palms. Last week Gossip Hopper went swirling to Manhattan to be lionessed at luncheons, ballyhooed all over town...
...Eastern Territory (New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio). He and his wife, who heads the district's Home League, are one of the few Army couples to be paid as much as $30 a week for their joint work. Many an archbishop supervises a smaller domain than Commissioner Damon's, with its 700 Army posts, 8,000 bandsmen and singers, 35,000 soldiers, annual budget of $1,600,000 in New York City alone...
Despite this apparent division of authority, the real control of Harvard's $200,000,000 worth of property, its $148,000,000 endowment, and its giant domain stretching from the Atkins Botanical Institution in Soledad, Cuba, to the Boyden Observatory in Blooinfontein, South Africa, lies in the hands of seven...