Word: grier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowell's interest in the cinema started last summer when he was chosen to succeed Princeton's late John Grier Hibben as chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, which attempts to elevate the moral tone of the cinema industry. Last month, his name popped into Variety for the first time when he requested President Roosevelt to include in the cinema code a provision against "block-booking," whereby producers require exhibitors to take pictures by groups instead of singly. Block-booking is the most familiar alibi of exhibitors who show morally deleterious films. Their real reason for disliking...
...Princeton a small, brown-shingled house had been leased for the Einsteins, near the homes of the late Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Henry van Dyke and John Grier Hibben. First thing Dr. Einstein did was stroll hatless down Princeton's Nassau (main) St., enter a 5?-&-10? store to buy a comb and scissors. Then he bought two newspapers, listened attentively and smoked his pipe while his associate, Dr. Walther Mayer, translated the news aloud. Next morning the Press assembled, at the invitation of Princeton's publicity department, for photographs. At length it was announced that Dr. Einstein...
Elected. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, retiring president of Harvard: to be chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, succeeding the late Dr. John Grier Hibben, president-emeritus of Princeton; in Manhattan...
Died. Jenny Davidson Hibben, 70, wife of the late John Grier Hibben, retired president of Princeton; of fractures of the skull and pelvis sustained in the automobile collision in which her husband was killed; in Manhattan, Ill since the accident occurred May 16, she developed pneumonia, was never told of her husband's death. Died. Horace H. Rackham, 74, Detroit attorney and charitarian; in Ann Arbor, Mich. Disregarding the advice of bankers, he mortgaged his real estate, borrowed $5,000, took 50 shares in the Ford Motor Co. in 1903. In 1919, Henry and Edsel Ford bought...
...Citadel (Charleston, S.C.) F.B. Grier, general counsel to the Atlantic Coast Line ....LL.D. Lewis Wardlaw Haskell, U.S. Consul-general in Zurich ...... LL.D. Engineer Walter M. Smith, designer of Chicago's Drainage District .... Sc.D...