Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such assorted communities as New York City, Baltimore, Denver, Los Angeles, Altoona, Pa., Ann Arbor, Mich., Charleston, S. C., Tucson, Ariz. The shortage had by no means reached the boom stage, when contractors "pirate" building mechanics on their way to work, enticing them away from other contractors with extra-fancy bonuses. But the bonus wage in 1937 is no longer a half-forgotten legend...
...preceding talks and framing them in general observations on education and concentration. As long as the faculty regard the occasion so seriously that people in the positions of Professor Munn and Professor Sachs speak for their fields, the first year men will flock in and listen carefully. To an extra large degree, therefore, the scheme depends on the effort and interest of the teachers...
...final solution to the present problems rests on men. Officers must be found that are capable to dispel gloom, warm up support, and check the present day tide away from extra-curricular activity. For in their function of providing light and cheery entertainment, amusing to audiences and players alike, the Clubs hold a unique and vital position in the college scene. If capable officers are chosen and vigorously supported in their plans for the ensuing year, a few changes and readjustments will send the Clubs off to a new and a fast start...
...Passed the First Deficiency Bill carrying appropriations for $950,000,000 of which $790,000,000 is for Relief to June 30 (not counting extra costs of Flood Relief) ; accepted minor House changes in conference; sent it to the White House...
...Harry and Jimmy Joachim were born in Newark, N. J. some 30 years ago, children of a hatter who presently moved to Brooklyn. Al became an extra at the old Astoria Studios, where the casting director did not like the name Joachim. Al glanced out a window, saw the Ritz Laundry, called himself that. He became moderately successful, lured his brothers into vaudeville. They launched a collegiate act in 1925, soon landed in Earl Carroll's Vanities. But collegiatism went stale and the trio had three lean years before they developed their present brand of satirical lunacy. It finally...