Word: file
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pending bill in Congress to free the islands.* He stood on the steps of Manila's Legislative Building to receive ovations, watch the fun. Beside him stood Nevada's Senator Key Pittman, many a Filipino official. For two hours Senator Hawes watched 50,000 natives file by-school children, college students, labor unionists, club women, civic workers, politicians. Loud and long were the cheers for Senator Hawes. Said he afterwards: "That turnout convinced me the Filipinos want independence. If anyone doesn't want it, he must be in hiding...
...content with merely expressing his opinion of the Star, Tycoon Doherty has his attorneys file a libel suit against it for $12,000,000 damages on six articles. The tenor of the challenged articles was that Mr. Doherty collects 1¾% of the gross revenue of his companies for his technical advice and management. In addition to denying this, Mr. Doherty claimed the articles had been printed to hurt his business in order that the Star's management might promote a competing pipeline. Publisher Longan retorted: "If it were true ... it would be no one's damned business...
...over into this last term during which 833 more were added. Out of a total of 1,005 cases, the court in eight months acted on 892, compared with 794 the term before. In none of the 113 cases which will go over to the next term has counsel filed briefs or made any argument. To Chief Justice Hughes goes chief credit for the court's dispatch. Following the methods of William Howard Taft, he has kept the court abreast of its docket by having all petitions for review, particularly those in criminal cases, acted upon in a week...
Young Sinners (Fox). Thomas Meighan quit the film business in 1929, spent a year travelling around the world, playing golf, meeting people. He found leisure boring and the Fox company thought this play, which it had on file, would give him just what he wanted to do. He wears corduroy breeches, a mackinaw, and a woodsman's boots and cap. He hums "The Rr-hiver Shannon" and when, with his broad brogue, he asks "What's the matter with Al Smith?" the audiences in Democrat towns start clapping. The picture is a comedy which critics passed off with...
...them yourself. Like every such community Tiverton Square has its social boss, Lady Poley; its most prominent citizen, Sir John Melhuish; its professional gossip, Miss Leggatt; its Citizen Fix-It, Colonel Parkin-thorpe; its shady businessman, Sir Herbert Livewright; its lady-with-a-past, Mrs. Gillingham; its rank & file of unremarkable characters who in real life would be of interest only to themselves. It is Author Mackail's especial triumph that he raises their realism to the plane of fiction. This year in Tiverton Square sees its tragedy of first love: in the eyes of the Square a victory...