Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcement struck the $150 million-a-year industry like a bombshell. The garment makers pay low wages, and only about 7,000 whites are willing to work for them. If the edict were put into effect, cried the clothing manufacturers, "we'd have to sack nearly 40,000 Negroes, and we can't get whites to take their place...
Some dean in charge of these matters allowed as how the "untidyness" of Yalies had elicited a "great deal of criticism" from visitors, and went on to explain that "not conformity, but neatness" was the aim of the edict. That went without saying, and what the dean must have meant is that he prefers well-dressed conformity to a bunch of sloppy Joes or sloppy Elihus. Anyone familiar with New Haven knows that Yale has already achieved remarkable conformity without coats and ties...
...Panzer. Four years after his death in 1902. Friedrich Alfred's daughter and only child. Bertha, married a Prussian counselor to the Vatican named Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach.* Before he left Villa Hügel on the day after the wedding, Kaiser Wilhelm II issued an imperial edict giving Gustav and any male descendants who inherited the Krupp properties the right to use the Krupp name...
...object of his wrath Rita Hayworth, Columbia's reigning love goddess; Rita had flounced out and left the studio with a costly stack of properties bought just for her. Before Cohn's desk, underlings watched the riding crop and awaited the great man's edict. If the studio only had another big female star, he grumbled, she could be used to bludgeon Hayworth into submission, or, if it came to that, to take over her roles in the scheduled pictures. Then Cohn announced his decree: "We will make a star...
First Rites. Just about then, Cohn issued his edict. At a Hollywood party, Marilyn met a Columbia production assistant; he took her to see Maxwell Arnow, then Columbia's talent chief. Arnow inspected her with a routine but practiced eye, advised her to lose some weight and return. When he met her again by chance in the office of Agent Louis Shurr, she had lost the weight-at least enough for Arnow to see possibilities. He ordered a screen test, soon was excitedly telephoning colleagues: "I've got the girl." Against her parents' advice ("I never could...