Word: fining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sweet Willie") Bioff, the boss of A. F. of L. labor in Hollywood studios and a potent figure in the U. S. entertainment industry. Sum of Columnist Pegler's findings was that in 1922 Willie Bioff was convicted of pandering, got a six-month jail sentence and $300 fine, lost an appeal, served only eight days of his sentence. Reported also were dirty details about a brothel on Chicago's South Halsted Street, including the specific information (from testimony) that on a single day a prostitute named Bernice Thomas received 13 men, through a hired hand passed...
...reading over, Fritz Kuhn reconsidered his estimate of Mrs. Camp. "I considered Mrs. Camp a very fine lady," said he, "but now I find...
...small traction companies $7,100,000 a year for 999 years for the privilege of running its street cars over their right of way. For the stockholders of the 49 underlying companies-among them the Wideners, the Elkinses and other First Philadelphia Families-this was a mighty fine deal. Their original investment in one case consisted of some horses that went to the glue factory about 1874. They claimed recently in court that their property was worth $35,000,000, and the court valued it at $6,000,000, but between 1902 and 1939 they collected $250,000,000 rent...
...course in playwriting, undergraduates could test their work in collaboration with the Dramatic Club and produce informally for their own practice and self-criticism. Another course, devoted to acting, might correlate all the odds and ends of drama now spread over the English Department. A third, given by the Fine Arts Department, would concentrate on design and technique for actual production. With such progress under its belt, Harvard could atone for the past, not by waiting for a financial "angel" but by announcing that the foundation for a complete School of Dramatic Arts was at last ready. Ignored three times...
...women voted for Hucy Long, and were the strongest faction behind James J. Walker, and thought Mr. Harding was a fine president, and backed Big Bill Thompson...