Word: growlings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This pacific declaration was supplemented by an ominous growl from the Committee's potent leader. John Llewellyn Lewis: "If the steel industry insists on a fight we have no alternative but to meet them. I should judge that they would do just that thing. They always have...
...Francis contributes throughout, was Warner Brothers' remorse for not including in Black Fury the scene in which a beautiful girl harangues a group of striking workers. This occurs in Stranded. When it is over Lynn Palmer and Mack Hale are happily reunited with nothing left for him to growl about except Kay Francis' incorrigible lisp. Sample speech, when Lynn Palmer is accepting a proposal of marriage: "You must never wooze you awwogance...
When the United Textile Workers announced that they would go on strike with less than $1,000,000 in their treasury to provide strike benefits for 300,000 strikers, their leaders intimated that, of course, the Relief Administration would feed them. Manufacturers promptly emitted a deep and throaty growl at Government-financed strikes. Last week before going to consult with the President at Hyde Park, Mr. Hopkins did his best to still this protest. Said...
...boats. Fact: Cord's bids were doubtless lowest but-Probable fact: Cord more than offset any operating losses by the resultant boom in New York Shipbuilding's stock. This operation is what prompted La Motte Turck Cohu, whom Cord ousted as president of Aviation Corp., to growl: "The air transport business will be torn away from the pioneer operators . . . and put into the hands of speculators." President Richard W. Robbins of TWA growled: "Postmaster General Farley has extended an open invitation for all the crapshooters of the vintage of 1929. . . ." It is fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt flew...
...agitator, that she should go to Greenwich Village and Learn to Live. She leaves her home among the coalfields and does as he suggests. In Greenwich Village she meets a poet, a painter and a dancer, all Growl's friends and all, like him, incompetent and insincere. True Merrill's only worthy admirer is Michael Harrison (John Boles), a millionaire who subsidizes her Greenwich Village cronies to prove to her that they are no-goods. True Merrill is grateful to Harrison but miserably disillusioned. Her only consolation is the fact that a publisher admires her first novel...