Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When slim little Irving Thalberg, production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, worked himself into the nervous break-down which sooner or later overtakes most cinema executives, Hollywood wondered how MGM would fill the gap. Thaiberg's hand had been in all the pictures which for the last five years have made MGM Hollywood's most successful company. His partner, MGM's dignified Vice President Louis Burt Mayer has, since hiring Thalberg in 1922, concerned himself more with studio finance than production...
First it had to choose a leader to fill the gap which Anton Joseph Cermak's death had left in the party organization. As expected, 70-year-old Patrick Austin Nash got the job as well as Cermak's place on the Democratic National Committee. A crony of the late Mayor and of Illinois Governor Henry Horner, he has been chairman of the Cook County Democratic Committee since 1931. Irish and crafty, always in a derby, he got his political education in the old school, under the late Boss Roger H. Sullivan...
Chicago and Frank Joseph Corr were as surprised as were New York and John Patrick O'Brien last autumn when Tammany Boss Curry threw O'Brien into the mayoral gap left by Jimmy Walker. Said Acting Mayor Corr: "I didn't even know I was a candidate. . . . I have no feeling of elation." Outside his own ward, where he has been Democratic chairman for 25 years, few Chicagoans ever heard of him. Born in Brooklyn 56 years ago, he was taken to Chicago twelve years later, began practicing law there in 1899. He was Assistant Corporation Counsel...
...value of the present competition will be increased if the participants show by their interest that the demand for instruction in dramatic writing is a genuine one. The Dramatic Club is making as great an effort as it can to fill the gap left in the English department by the exodus of Mr. Baker, but it cannot alone complete the task it has set for itself. Dramatic writing is as important a form of expression as is fiction and poetry, and as such should be recognized by the English Department. The present lack of balance in composition courses should...
...order that the French department may present a course which will bridge the gap between the adequate French A and the informative French 6, as well as satisfy the men who have had too little French in preparatory school to meet the language requirements, it seems wise to reorganize French 1 and 2 along radically new lines. The reorganized courses should be of the same intensity and difficulty, neither containing work in composition, and both subordinating literal translation in class to discussion of the author being studied and his contemporaries. French 1 would cover classical literature, thus preparing...