Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reviewing Harold Lloyd's new film, The Cat's Paw, your critic tells how "the son of a Chinese missionary (Harold Lloyd) ... returns to his hometown to find himself a wife...
...Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's America's Cup contender Rainbow: a 30-mi. race against Frederick Henry Prince's Weetamoe; in light winds, off Newport. After the race, the New York Yacht Club's selection committee announced that Weetamoe had been eliminated as a possible defender, waited to see what Yankee, winner of most of the trials, could do against Rainbow in a stiff breeze before making a final selection...
Studebaker's position is complicated by a receivership growing out of a legal snarl in its attempt to acquire White Motor (trucks). Reorganization plans are nearly complete. Meanwhile, the company has gained ground under the three able receivers, Harold S. Vance, Paul Gray Hoffman and Ashton G. Bean. When once again her own mistress, Studebaker could listen to honorable proposals...
First administrative re-action to the League sponsored by Alfred E. Smith, John W. Davis, and prominent Republicans came from Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickles, a progressive Republican New Dealer. He welcomed the League in the belief it would lead to realignment of parties in this country...
...delay that followed Harold Lloyd's last picture Movie Crazy (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932) was partly due to the fact that he could find no suitable story. He bought The Cat's Paw when Author Clarence Budington Kelland had finished only the first chapter, offered suggestions to make the part more to his taste. When the story was finished Producer Lloyd was amazed to find that none of the antics which his private staff of "gagmen" usually arrange for him seemed to fit the plot. He finally accepted the advice of his director, Sam Taylor, to make...