Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Listing the occasions on which Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy has been absent from the State, Lieut. Governor Leo J. Nowicki invoked an 1840 statute, asked the State auditor to pay him the Governor's salary for the days in question. Figuring that he had been away 32 days at $13.88 a day,* nettled Governor Murphy sent the auditor his check for $444.42. Lieut. Governor Nowicki (who has been earning $200 a week since July as a bankruptcy trustee) thereupon claimed the Governor's salary not for 32 days but for 70, returned his own check...
...exploit to the limit each of these climactic events was easier for Director Frank Lloyd and his cinemauthor associate, Howard Estabrook, than to relate them coherently and plausibly in a film of less than two hours' duration. Too experienced a craftsman to suspend the full weight of so freighted a period on romance's slender cord. Director Lloyd makes a valiant try at hooking up Wells & Fargo with everything in sight, from notorious Lola Montez to Lincoln's second inaugural address...
...Shoemakers' Holiday (by Thomas Dekker; produced by the Mercury Theatre). With his modern-dress Julius Caesar still playing to capacity audiences in its eighth week, last week Actor-Producer Orson Welles turned again to the gusty Elizabethans. Bawdier than three burlesque shows, but too disarmingly frank and deftly acted to be offensive, The Shoemakers' Holiday struck Broadway like a brisk wind. Good Queen Bess, never a prude, must have liked it too, and roared like a sailor...
Bill Kendall, Don Barker, Don McKay, Ray Benedict, Freddie Griffin, and Captain Hutter comprise one of the fastest groups of sprinters in the country. Frank Coleman and Bob Murphy will take care of the distance work, while Eric Cutler, who created a sensation last year when as a Freshman he came dangerously near five minutes in the 440, is out with an arm injury...
Invention of a new electric phonograph pick-up that is from 5 to 15 times lighter than the types now in use has been made by two men working in the Cruft Laboratory here. The inventors are Frank V. Hunt, assistant professor of Physics and Communicating Engineering, and J. A. Pierce...