Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Announcement was made last night by E. W. Gross '27, Business Manager of the Dramatic Club, that the services of Edward Massey '15, have been secured to coach the December and April productions of the Club, for which there are available several experienced actors, including G. B. Bingham '28, who played the leading part in "Brown of Harvard" last spring. Mr. Massey is a former coach of Club productions but was absent last spring. He returns from New York, where he has recently staged John Dos Passos' play "The Moon is a Gong...
...plays to produce, have always inclined toward pieces written by students of the College, rather than to those of external authorship. Later in the year there will be an opportunity for those who are interested in writing plays for presentation by the Club to obtain practical instruction in playwriting, Gross said. Plays may be of any length and of any type. Manuscripts should be in the hands of C. H. Johnston '27, at 52 Plympton Street, by Saturday Candidates for other departments of the Club will be called out in about two weeks, it was also announced...
...workable. ... P. R. T. (Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.) in 1911 was not financially able to pay its trainmen more than the wage rate theretofore secured through arbitration, and against which the men were in open rebellion. The payment of this rate in 1910 had consumed about 22% of the gross passenger earnings. The new agreement, which we then made, provided that out of every dollar taken in, these men should receive 22 cents, so that as the owners secured advantage by the increased business obtained through joint effort of men and management, the men would themselves secure an increased wage...
...League made rules. No college player could play professionally until his class had graduated from college. As for money, visiting teams are to receive some 32%, of gross receipts, the remainder to be apportioned between the home team owners and players with a sort of bonus for high ranking at the end of the season. The football League rules are identical with those of the respective baseball Leagues save that the word "football" is substituted for "baseball" throughout. And as its overlord, sits a man whose mountainous bulk overhung last week's conference- William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards...
...loyal Times readers, after reading this statement, took out their pencils and did a bit of arithmetic. The New York Times, they decided, must make from daily sales a gross income of $1,500,000 a year, in addition to its Sabbath income of $30,000 a week (about $1,500,000 a year). Therefore, these inquisitive readers decided, their favorite newspaper's annual civic income is not much above $3,000,000 and the balance of the $25,000,000 must come from advertisers. "And 95 per cent of the total earnings," said the editorial, "have been reinvested...