Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort to rally as much support as possible in the campaign for repeal of the Teacher's Oath Bill, a meeting will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon at Phillips Brooks House. The meeting will be open to all members of the University, and the sponsors of this move hope to enlist the aid of the student bodies of their various colleges in the fight for repeal of the statute recently passed by the legislature...
...result is the first authentic effort in the history of cinema to produce a Shakespearean drama. Manufactured at a cost of $1,500,000, replete with a cast of Hollywood favorites, two directors, a Mendelssohn score and a Nijinska ballet, A Midsummer Night's Dream opened last week simultaneously in New York and London, accompanied by stampedes of mixed celebrities and louder cries of excitement from critics than have greeted any premiere in the last six months...
...sell the public. It will produce, on United Artists' lot where Pioneer Pictures will also function, some half dozen films a year at an average of $500,000 each. First on the list is Little Lord Fauntleroy, with Freddie Bartholomew,* starting Nov. 15, to be followed by an effort in Technicolor. Producer Selznick plans to bring Author Somerset Maugham to Hollywood. Directors George Cukor and John Cromwell, Actor Ronald Colman are now under contract...
...Electric Bond & Share stockholders' meeting, it was obvious there would be more news than just a reading of the annual report. Nothing happened until after Chairman Clarence Edward Groesbeck had given an accounting of his 1935 stewardship. Then Stockholder Herbert Claiborne Pell proposed that the corporation make no effort to influence public opinion against the Public Utility Act of 1935. Stockholder Pell, onetime (1921-26) Democratic State Chairman for New York and onetime (1919-21) U. S. Representative, argued that the more the company protested against Government interference, the more the Government was certain to interfere. Then up jumped...
...heads of the twelve Federal Land Banks probably know more about farm real estate conditions than any other dozen men in the U. S. Their institutions, organized during the War to lend farmers money on mortgages, represent the most successful effort in the U. S. to provide cheap, long-term agricultural credit. Last week with all twelve Land Bank presidents in Washington for a conference with the Farm Credit Administration, an alert Wall Street Journal newshawk obtained a comprehensive survey of farm real estate conditions without leaving the city. Since the Land Banks have picked up a goodly...