Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood woke up one morning last week to find its self-satisfied air full of dead cats. The slingers: Manhattan's Independent Theatre Owners Association. Inc. Their targets: Greta Garbo. Marlene Dietrich. Mae West. Joan Crawford, Kay Francis. Katharine Hepburn. Edward Arnold. Fred Astaire. The reason: These highly-publicized great ones were "poison at the box office." "WAKE UP." screamed the theatre owners to Hollywood's producers. "Practically all of the major studios are burdened with stars-whose public appeal is negligible-receiving tremendous salaries . . . Garbo, for instance . . . does not help theatre owners...
...time for an Administration spokesman to present its side of the argument. The job fell to genial Jesse Jones, whose practical handling of RFC has made him more palatable to Big Business than are most of his Government compeers. Banker Jones rose at an afternoon session just after President Edward E. Brown of Chicago's First National Bank had remarked that Government regulations hamper the free flow of credit. Said Jesse Jones: "There is a widespread feeling that credit is not readily available at banks on the character of security that many businesses have to offer, security that...
...skids, this added up to a pressing need for cash. Three months ago U. S. Steel borrowed $50,000,000 from Pittsburgh, Chicago and Manhattan banks. Last week, to retire the loans and get the money for 1938's construction, Myron Taylor's successor, young Edward R. Stettinius Jr., announced his first big financial operation: flotation of $100,000,000 in ten-year debentures, to take place next month under the wing of Morgan Stanley...
...simple method, called peritoneoscopy. was developed 37 years ago by Dr. Georg Kelling of Dresden, was neatly perfected four years ago by Dr. John Carroll Ruddock of Los Angeles. Last fortnight the New England Journal of Medicine printed an article on this useful subject, by Boston's Dr. Edward Benson Benedict, whose experience confirmed Dr. Ruddock's-that with a peritoneoscope he can make an accurate diagnosis of ailments within the abdomen in almost every case, whereas clinical diagnosis scores only 64%. However, peritoneoscopists will not risk prying into an inflamed abdomen...
...Crimson team was composed of John Bentinck-Smith and Robert M. Page; Charles P. Swann and David Epstein; Roger Willcox and Robert B. Soldman; Edward W. McNitt and George N. White...