Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Star witness for the defense of runaways was Actor Charlton Heston, who flew in from Hollywood to testify as vice president of the Screen Actors Guild. Heston insisted that, personally, he much preferred working in the comfortable U.S. to "climbing Mount Sinai barefoot" or "riding hour after hour in a chariot in the vicinity of Rome." But many of the films cited by the complaining unions "couldn't have been made at all if they had not been made abroad." In fact, the runaways were helping Hollywood stay in business. Ben-Hur, he argued, saved M-G-M from...
...breakfast speech at a men's group at Temple Israel. After 11:30 Mass, he hurried to a Framingham neighborhood coffee meeting, followed it up with a luncheon speech in Framingham, an appearance at a "silver get-acquainted tea" given by Medford St. James Church Women's Guild, a talk to a parents' group at the Wrenthem State School for retarded children. That night he attended the General Casimir Pulaski Skyway Committee banquet, held in Dorchester, quoted part of Poland's national anthem in Polish, enthusiastically danced the polka with a score of girls...
...more common on Madison Avenue than the critics are the admen who testily resent inside or outside criticism of their trade. "The eggheads dislike businessmen, the eggheads dislike advertising," snorts Rosser Reeves, chairman of hard-sell Ted Bates & Co. Says Walter Guild, president of San Francisco's Guild, Bascom & Bonfigli, the ad agency for the Kennedy election campaign: "If Toynbee wants to make his own toothpaste and his wife wants to sew her own brassières. O.K. He's just using advertising as a focal point to criticize our entire economic system...
...reputation as a lawyer skilled in handling equity and corporate issues. Then, in 1938, two of Chicago's C.I.O. leaders-Van Bittner, a director of the Steelworkers' Organizing Committee, and Sam Levin of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers-asked Goldberg to represent the C.I.O.'s American Newspaper Guild, then on strike and in savage dispute with Hearst's Chicago Herald and Examiner. At that time both the C.I.O. and the Guild had Communists in high positions. "There was real trouble with the ideological conflict within the C.I.O.," recalls Goldberg, "and they needed a lawyer...
...addition to their lunch-hour activities, the City's 16 Guild Churches have each developed a specialty. St. Stephen, Walbrook, specializes in rescuing would-be suicides; with a staff of seven and 200-part-time volunteers, it handles more than 100 calls for help a week. St. Mary Aldermary gives advice on religious retreats; St. Martin, Ludgate, specializes in marriage counseling, and the tiny church of St. Ethelburga concentrates on the ministry of healing...