Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...services were needed. These demands the Stouts refused. After a shutdown, they reopened their mill, offered to rehire all onetime employes individually. The Labor Board's complaint cited the three Stouts for refusing to bow to the unionized majority in the mill, threatened them with a $5,000 fine, a year in jail, or both, for violations of the Labor...
...upon what he and his Cabinet had done and not upon what they had said, but upon their feelings and intentions and the feelings of public opinion as, after approximately one week's interval, it finally crashed through the skulls of His Majesty's Government. In a fine, even a literary, passage Orator Baldwin cried: "I would like to make this quite clear. Never throughout that week had I or any one of my colleagues any idea in our own minds we were not being true to every pledge we had given in the election. I am telling...
...give radical drama the best possible marks. The case of Paradise Lost was no exception. Unanimously Mr. Odets was again declared to be the most promising playwright in the land. Again he got generous credit for his ability to stoke up steam under dramatic situations, explode them in fine style. Praised, too, was Mr. Odets' peculiar vulgate in which a girl is a "squab" or a "melon," thoughts are sometimes articulated by the titles of popular songs and a state of amorous infatuation occurs when "the little love bugs get into you." The play as a play, however, critics...
Scrooge is a British version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, released for the U. S. Christmas trade by Paramount. A properly mean, frowzy, waspish Scrooge (Sir Seymour Hicks), a fine, spindly-legged Bob Cratchit (Donald Calthrop), a frail, treble-voiced Tiny Tim, and a number of thoroughly capable minor actors move through snowy London streets and warm Early Victorian interiors. Projected with tenderness but without sentimentality are the sequences showing the rousing Christmas of the Cratchit family. Good shot: Cockney harridans cackling over the belongings of the dead Scrooge in the Christmas-yet-to-come...
...three years she lived in London as Bennett's mistress, going away with him on occasional holidays but keeping a separate house, following her chosen career as he followed his. One fine day, when Bennett was off on a cruise, she knew she was going to have a baby. His reply to her news: "Very sorry. Very glad. Shall catch boat Hook of Holland, be with you tomorrow." When the baby (a girl) was born. Dorothy and the child moved into Bennett's house, were acknowledged as his family...