Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newshawks began guessing twice as hard when on his week-end yachting trip he was joined by Governor Murphy of Michigan who flew to join him on the Presidential yacht. On the endless list of Court possibilities drawn up by the quidnuncs of the press, the name of Frank Murphy stood beside such others as Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Federal Judges Sam Gilbert Bratton (onetime U. S. Senator from New Mexico), Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Houston, Texas, Florence Allen of Columbus, Law Professors Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, Lloyd Garrison of Wisconsin...
...freshmen Senators who had supported the President's Court Bill, at least till near the last, mourned with the new Democratic leader, Senator Barkley. At the other, a happier affair, the Court Bill's opponents including Senators Wheeler, Burke, Mc-Carran, Clark, celebrated with famed Attorney Frank Hogan and Woodrow Wilson's one man brain trust, Joseph P. Tumulty. This second group of Senators celebrated not only the passing of the Old Court Bill but the birth of the New Court Bill whose swift enactment was expected...
Although it was midsummer, Frank Bacon was playing Lightnin' to jammed houses, Fay Bainter was filling standing room in East Is West, something called Nightie Night was opening that very evening at the Princess, and eleven other shows were doing adequate hot-weather box office. At 8:20 p.m. word was flashed along Broadway, with Broadway's customary flair for the spectacular, that "Lightnin' has struck!" Then, one after another, in the Shubert, Playhouse, Lyric, Astor, Knickerbocker-in all but one of Broadway's showhouses-lights were dimmed and the customers were told to go home...
...Frank Gillmore has not forgotten that night in Manhattan 18 years ago this week. For although he was not to become Actors Equity Association's president until ten years later, that night was Equity's coming of age, and Frank Gillmore was even then Equity's guiding hand. The strike spread to eight hinterland cities, closed 37 houses, kept 16 others from opening, cost producers & actors $3,000,000, lasted 30 days. It was Broadway's one big strike and still is the Theatre's one big Labor milestone. When it was all over Actors...
Last week in Equity's Manhattan offices there met with Frank Gillmore the heads of all A. A. A. A. unions, among them Screen Actors' Executive Secretary Kenneth Thomson, an ambitious B-picture cinemactor whose talents as organizer have exceeded his talents on the screen. When the meeting was over, Equity no longer had the leading role in the theatrical unionization show. A new strong A. A. A had come forth to play the part. ' That part will consist in being pretty much the One Big Union of show busines assuming full responsibility for jurisdictional disputes, integrating...