Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon. David was not at the station to meet her. At the house, she first heard his voice querulously complaining about cold bath water. Soon he was enthusiastically outlining to her his plans for British Fascism - "a great company [of veterans] bound by common experience, [with a] soldiers' guild . . . soldiers' candidate . . . soldiers' party...
...Newspaper Guild promptly cried "lockout," voted to go on strike themselves, stay out till they got their back...
Manhattan's Literary Guild snapped up James Hilton's So Well Remembered (Little, Brown; $2.50)-catching it on the fly to Hollywood, where such earlier creations as Lost Horizon have fattened Author-Scripter Hilton's purse, made his characters familiar to millions. Other famed Hilton pictures: Knight Without Armor; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Random Harvest (see cut). British Author Hilton and Chinese Author Lau Shaw proved brothers under the skin. Both proffered an amiable, spotless husband married to a woman more harpy than human. Each seemed to feel his harpy-heroine typified the evil forces against which...
...show was put on by the enterprising Guild of British Creative Designers, an association of twelve wholesale gown manufacturers, which has its eye on postwar trade, would like to grab some Parisian prestige. But for the uniformed and utility-clothed British girl the show was a frustration. The Board of Trade does not yet permit, for domestic use, such luxury items as were shown last week. All 48 of the models displayed were earmarked: Down Under-for export to Australia...
...irreconcilable differences had been there all along-but there had once been reasons for reconciling them. In 1936, Hearst's P-I had been shut down by a costly 15-week American Newspaper Guild strike, and was in bad odor with the New Dealing, labor-loving seaport of Seattle...