Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without action. When this was reported in the press last week, Franklin Roosevelt changed front barely in time to save face. It remained to be seen what else he could save. A two-judge compromise, which would easily have won in April, in June after a long, embittering fight was no longer certain of acceptance...
...magazines settled like locusts upon the country. More recently "Time" appeared under the Pegasus hoofprint; everyone knows what that did to life. Now fortune sndles on the "Saturday Review of Literature," just fathered by Mother Advocate. Run to your newsdealer, buy a copy, be in the thick of the fight. The "Saturday Review's" circulation soars; the "New Masses" vituperates; the Writers' Congress passes posthumous deprecation Number 33; Bernard De Voto glows and expands...
Principals in the fight were Hollywood's Bob Nestell, whose latest pugilistic accomplishment was a bit part in Kid Galahad, and New York's Bob Pastor, who last winter avoided being knocked out by Joe Louis by running away for ten rounds. Pastor's reward for knocking Nestell down twice, winning easily in ten rounds: an offer of a screen contract...
...vice-presidencies went to Mr. Irvin, the other to Mr. Weir, who later greeted the banqueting steelmen with a perfect Fascist salute. It was a sweet, though probably hollow, victory for the embattled independents, for it meant that the Institute still stood for a last-ditch fight for the Open Shop...
Biggest hate of all independent theatre owners is block-booking, or sale of blocks of films to exhibitors sight unseen. Enlisted in Allied's fight against block-selling are church groups, women's clubs and parent-teacher associations which believe that one result is the inclusion among the pictures booked of offensive films which the independent owner is compelled to take. Producers retort that this is untrue because block-booking contracts provide a 10 to 15% cancellation privilege. Great advantage of block-booking from the producers' point of view is that it gives them a constant, steady...