Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been trounced in a libel suit by Frank E. Bonner, onetime executive secretary of the Federal Power Commission. The Washington case was second in a list of actions against 14 Hearstpapers resulting from their syndicated attack three years ago upon Bonner and another Power Commission employe named Frank Warren Griffith as minions of "the Power Trust" (TIME...
...Boston, where five months ago Hearst's American was ordered to pay $50,000 to Bonner, $4,200 to Griffith, the Washington newspapers loyally obeyed their unwritten law to ignore libel suits involving each other. In one particular, however, Hearst's Washington Herald broke the rule. When five of Plaintiff Griffith's nine counts were dismissed (he collected $250 each on the other four), the Herald blithely headlined...
...Republican Congressmen; by 18 runs to 16 the annual inter-party House of Representatives baseball game: in Griffith's Stadium, Washington, D. C. The Democrats wore the Washington Senators' white "home" uniforms, the Republicans their grey "road" uniforms. Florida's Caldwell, pitching for the Democrats (in Walter Johnson's famed No. 12 suit), blew up in the seventh inning when his team was four runs ahead. New Jersey's Republican Hartley knocked a homerun...
...nose to spite his face, had cut off his head instead. Zanuck plans to produce 12 pictures a year with his new company. He will be paid $4,500 a week, 50% of the profits of his pictures and a $100,000 bonus before he starts work. Supervisor Ray Griffith, Story Editor Howard Smith, Personnel Director William Dover, all from the Warner lot, had already agreed to work with him last week. Backers of the new company were not named...
Engaged. Elizabeth Alice van Antwerp Manning, daughter of New York's Protestant Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning; and Griffith Baily Coale, 43, Manhattan muralist...