Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest reported statement that merely my personal misconduct was involved is ludicrous, inasmuch as it immediately brands "Spectator" as my personal property, subject to my every whim and unaffected by others. Dean Hawkes expelled me because I was editor of "Spectator" and because "Spectator" criticized strongly where it saw fit. The Dean's twisting of the issue for every occasion only marks the last resort of a person forced to attempt to justify an unjustifiable action." --Columbia Spectator...
...upon Congress. The Democrats were accused of "soaking the rich" and "conscripting wealth." Speaker Garner was denounced for failing to control his party in an emergency. (This week he took the floor with a budget-balancing plea.) The Democratic "chaos" was taken to prove that the party was not "fit to rule." But the House majority against the Sales Tax clearly reflected the sentiment of the country as a whole where the revolt against the staggering mass of direct and tangible taxes has been steadily progressing. Anti-sales-taxers argued that it was much better to "soak the rich" than...
Girl Crazy (RKO) is a vehicle fit for the comic talents of Robert Woolsey and Ben Wheeler, two funnymen from vaudeville who have lately aroused so much enthusiasm among cinemaddicts that they were last week the principals in an experiment to find a new way of paying actors. Harry Cohn, new president of Columbia Pictures Corp., announced that he had hired Wheeler & Woolsey to make a picture for a royalty on its profits, an arrangement never before tried by a major producing company. If it works. Columbia will try it on other employes...
Meanwhile Sydney seethed. Sydney is the Capital of New South Wales and its agent in London is, in Sydney's eyes, almost an ambassador. If Agent Willis had seen fit to warn Premier Lang, extraordinary precautions must be taken against the "plot...
...company sold employes 56,000 shares of stock at $25 when its market value was $112. President Hill received 13,440 shares, equivalent to a $1,200,000 bonus. Few other shareholders have shown any desire to protest, feeling Mr. Hill well deserves to proceed as he sees fit. Federal Judge Francis Caffey, in giving his decision last week, made it clear that it was not final, wanted a definite ruling by a higher court...