Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metropolitan theatres loud-lunged claques greeted the appearance of Fleischer cartoons with resounding boos. Fortnight ago C.A.D.U. announced that 13 cinema theatre circuits, including more than 500 theatres, had banned Fleischer cartoons pending settlement of the strike. Attorneys for Paramount Pictures, Fleischer distributor, promptly denied it. Fact was that some theatres had indeed banned the Fleischer cartoons, others had temporarily dropped them to keep their audiences quiet...
Practically unknown to the people who read his daily column in 40 newspapers is the fact that on & off for 10 years Mr. Broun, whose heart is as big as his stomach, has been contributing (almost literally) a weekly article to the Nation. First news that Editor Kirchwey had of his shift was when the New Republic sent in copy for an exchange advertisement in the Nation announcing the acquisition of Mr. Broun. However, Editor Kirchwey (who agreed to the advertising swap) had long been aware that the Newspaper Guild's unpressed president had not been happy...
...favor of the Christian Herald figures: church assessments and quotas, even when marked up to assure a decent return, are on a per capita basis. Thus, as one Lutheran reported: ''No pastor or secretary would dare or care to report a larger membership than actually is the fact, as this would increase the amount of money requested from the congregation. 'Dead men pay no bills...
...Logan did not discharge all her servants, but aside from kitchen help who cook the vegetables and wash the dishes, "Sarobia" is run on the inside by the Logans and their guests, and the fact that Mr. Logan believes that the estate should be as near to weedy nature as possible makes things easy for the outside servants. On "Sarobia's" grounds are 13 houses and cabins, one a guesthouse named "Runcible" after a Logan cat. and another a onetime roadhouse near the highway. In these live indigent poets, artists, thinkers, mostly obscure folk. Last week, on his annual...
Once hailed by Annie Besant as a "World Teacher" who had in him the same "Christ Force" as did Jesus, Krishnamurti has renounced Theosophy and in fact all systems, dogmas, labels, ties, organizations. Wandering continually about the world, he holds meetings for people who are interested in learning his mystic way of life and thought, as some 3,000 were this summer at the annual camp meeting he holds at Ommen, Holland, on property given him by a Dutch nobleman. His friends-he dislikes the word "disciple" because "one who is a disciple is already bound"-call him "Krishnaji...