Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enforcement to recover from the setback it suffered under General Lincoln Andrews. . . . He multiplied publicity, created a public psychology in his own favor . . . began to put in office men who were temperamentally and in every other way unfitted for the task. His notorious appointments . . . Roscoe Harper . . . Frank Hale. . .Major Walton Green . . . Ned M. Green. . . . I refuse to believe that out of our 100,000,000 population and perhaps 20,000,000 who believe in prohibition 4,000 [agents] cannot be found who cannot be bought...
...Paramount). Since in writing murder stories an author's development, if it takes place at all, must be along the line of murders, S. S. Van Dine, who made his first reputation out of stories with one murder, went on brilliantly to four in the Greene family. Director Frank Tuttle, who photographed The Canary Murder Case, used District Attorney Markham, Detective Sergeant Heath and Super-Detective Philo Vance (William Powell) again to find out who was killing all the Greenes. Perhaps because of the great number of Greenes who must die before the murderer is tracked down, the picture...
...shot the arrow that killed the cock-robin strike of Actors' Equity in Hollywood? "I" admits Actress Ethel Barrymore. "Ethel Barrymore!" cries President Frank Gillmore of Equity. The evening after President Gillmore's meeting at which Equity members in Hollywood adopted a resolution requiring cinema producers to employ casts at least 80% Equity (TIME, Aug. 19), Miss Barrymore denounced Mr. Gillmore's tactics as "futile" and left town. Tickled, the producers sat tight. Vexed, President Gillmore called off the strike, left for New York, flayed Actress Barrymore more for speaking out of turn "during the heat...
Probable designer-Frank C. Paine, one-time partner, now rival, of Designer Burgess...
Tennis. Eastern lawn (at Rye, N. Y.)- Singles, William Tatem Tilden II of Philadelphia; doubles, Tilden & Frank Hunter of New Rochelle, N. Y.; women's singles, Sarah Palfrey of Brookline, Mass.; women's doubles, Edith Cross & Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper of California. National junior (at Culver, Ind.)-Singles, Keith Gledhill of Santa Barbara, Cal.; doubles, Gledhill & Ellsworth Vines of Pasadena. National boys'-Singles, Jay Cohn of Santa Monica, Cal.; doubles, Cohn & C. R. Hunt of San Francisco...