Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frank advocate of terrorism, tall, thin, shaggy-haired Codreanu has been implicated in many of Rumania's political assassinations in the last 15 years. His grandfather an immigrant Pole, his mother rumored to have been a German, Codreanu first acquired political importance by shooting dead Prefect Manciu of Jassy, Rumania's university town, who had arrested students for anti-Semitic outrages. Results for him: a trial, acquittal, increased popularity, formation of the secret terrorist society "The League of the Archangel Michael," forerunner of the Iron Guard and the All-for-the-Fatherland Party...
Columbia Pictures runs a gamut of its own, from the frankest sort of penny-thriller melodrama to the maturest. best-ordered and funniest comedy in cinema. For Columbia's good standing with the carriage trade, the men chiefly responsible are the team of Director Frank Capra and Writer Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon). Last fiscal year (June 26) unpretentious Columbia cleared a profit of $1,317,771. Of next season's schedule of 40 films, high spot will probably be Director Capra's production of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize...
Kidnapped (Twentieth Century-Fox). In telling this story. Robert Louis Stevenson indulged in a few frank errors. But the only far-reaching one was his foreword, saying ''how little I am touched by the desire of accuracy." For from this offered inch Hollywood was bound to make an ell. The past cinema season has been pretty rough on Stevenson-adding a blonde Kozatsky dancer to the Soviet's Treasure Island (TIME, Jan. 31), flaunting an unimagined Hollywood ingenue in a Technicolored sarong in Ebb Tide (TIME, Nov. 29)-but in Kidnapped, R. L. S. takes the count...
Among the tender hearts of Hollywood, the strikers promptly found lush support. Humorist Frank Scully became chairman of the strikers' public relations committee, provided them with a theme song...
...Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); Harry D. Frueauff, Cities Service Co., Cities Service Oil Co., Empire Oil & Refining Co.; Edward Karstedt, formerly of Continental Oil Co.; G. C. Morris, Pure Oil Co.; Alexander Fraser, Shell Petroleum Corp.; J. W. Carnes, Sinclair Refining Co.; Robert W. McDowell, Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.; Frank Phillips, Phillips Petroleum Co.; W. G. Skelly, Skelly Oil Co., Ohio...