Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representative home to sleepless nights. Because musicians are as tightly organized as any labor group in the country,* Weber's threat of a walk-out all over the U. S. was no idle boast. Radio officials asked for, and got, two additional weeks to deliberate. As the deadline drew close, promises of strike support from locals as far away as San Francisco flooded his office...
...Music Merchants' Convention has been held every year for 36 years, but last week's, which drew 3,000 delegates to the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan, was the biggest. It was also the noisiest, for convening were not only retail groups which included the National Association of Music Merchants and the National Retail Musical Instrument Dealers' Association, but also the National Association of Musical Merchandise Wholesalers and a sizable collection of manufacturers, who brought along the biggest agglomeration of musical wares ever assembled. For four days, deals, discussions, and congratulations were drowned by the cacophonous obbligato...
...vice-president and director of the old Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co. and a director of its successor, Graham Paige, he also knew a great deal about the independent automobile business. In the spring of 1936 Bradley took counsel with Hupp's director of sales and chief engineer, drew up an analysis of the company which he put before the directors in June. Gist of it was that with Hupmobile's reputation still high among car-owners* all Hupp needed was working capital and a new car. The company had no funded debt, and drastic write-downs...
...General John Sutter and an Oregon lumber tycoon named Bernard Glasgow, as swashbuckling Jim Fisk, whose financial freebooting nearly disrupted Wall Street in the decade after the Civil War. Abetted by his young cronies, Nick Boyd (Gary Grant) and Luke (Jack Oakie), Fisk amiably horn-swoggles pious little Dan Drew (Donald Meek) out of control of the Erie Railroad, then makes a fortune by selling watered Erie stock to Cornelius Vanderbilt. Pursued by the law, he uses the Ninth Regiment, of which he is the Colonel, to help him get across the Hudson to New Jersey, uses the profits from...
Adapted from two books-a biography of Daniel Drew and The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson-by Joel Sayre, John Twist and Dudley Nichols, The Toast of New York is a lively specimen of prefabricated Americana. It aims to be and is a complete prevarication, impaired only by the fact that Edward Arnold's jowled jollities are indistinguishable from the ones which the U. S. screen's No. 1 specialist in 19th Century captains of finance has used in all his previous portrayals. Good shot: Fisk, Boyd and the Ninth Regiment routing a gang hired by Vanderbilt...