Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressing problem. Last week in Hollywood they found a solution: to represent them as labor arbitrator, the eight major companies included in the Producers Association (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, RKO, United Artists, Universal and Columbia) elected Benjamin Bertram Kahane, for the last year right-hand man to Columbia's President Harry Kohn. Bald, hook-nosed Ben Kahane, 45, is a onetime Chicago lawyer who became general counsel for the old Orpheum Circuit, and got into cinema when the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation was formed in 1928, worked up to become president of RKO Studios...
...construction boss, but preferred a footloose life, wandering from one line job to another, working until he had a roll and then living high until he had to go to work again. First Slim was Red's "grunt" (groundman). Slim sent up tools as needed on the hand line, tossed up bolts which Red caught with the nonchalant magnificence of a big-league outfielder. When a lineman with a hangover dropped off a tower and got killed, Slim stopped being a grunt. He was so proud of his lineman's belt he hated to take...
...boat is moored upon the strand, My face is to the sea. I hold the tiller in my hand And wait the tide that calls...
With another bathing-suit season at hand, local lawmakers are aiming their ordinances at males on the score of topless suits* rather than at underclad females. A five-year-old male bathing lawsuit came to trial last week in Chicago but an alleged lower exposure, not an upper, had started it. And though the fight was between two-lawyers, the only persons hurt were three policemen...
...from Connecticut," 47 Guile wage and working condition agreements are now in effect, where only seven flourished a year ago. The 47 current agreements cover 78 newspapers (many of them chainpapers). Membership in the twelve-month had increased from 5,716 to 11,112. The treasury had $231 on hand last year, $10,049 this year. A $20,000 war chest is to be collected. In one important aspect, however, the Guild remained unchanged. The convention's votes (143 this year) are still dominated by the solid bloc of 24 from the New York City delegation, which is affectionately...