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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Three's a Crowd, The Band Wagon and Flying Colors, Composer Schwartz and Lyricist Dietz have been recognized by Tin Pan Alley as a top-notch songwriting team. When they work on a show, they hire a hotel room, stay in it until the show is ready for rehearsal. They refer to typical musicomedy songs in jargon: a "restless" ("Moanin' Low"), a "Columbus" ("I Found A Million Dollar Baby"), a "Hoover" ("Just Around A Corner"). The coat, vest and pants of a song are its verse, transition and chorus. Dietz-Schwartz songs ("Something to Remember...
...organize the strikers who, finding that they got more out of the Relief Administration than they did by working, proceeded to picket while hogweed grew two feet high in the fields. One grower's home was bombed down, a warehouse burned. The village of McGuffey had to hire 50 deputy sheriffs to keep the peace. The Labor Board sent out a mediator to treat with the growers and the chief agitator for the weeders, a hard-fisted young man named Okey O'Dell, president of the Agricultural Workers...
...mapped out for him called for: 1) modernization of 13,000,000 buildings in the U. S. ; 2) stimulation of a new building boom. Since both aims were to be accomplished without direct use of govern ment money, Mr. Moffett calculated that the Housing Administration would not need to hire more than 500 employes. On some days during the past month as many as 6,000 jobhunters haunted his offices. Politicians pulled wires on every side. By last week he finally had 250 carefully chosen employes, including his assistant. Albert L. Deane, able president of General Motors Holding Corp...
...bill to remove ballot boxes from the jurisdiction of local sheriffs and to empower the Governor to appoint two of the three members of all local election boards. In addition the Governor is authorized to hire an unlimited number of election guards at $5 a day at the community's expense...
...Above directors in Hollywood's economic, if not in its esthetic, scale are producers who hire directors, assign them to pictures, tell them how much to spend and are, to some extent, respon- sible for their work. Three of the most widely publicized producers in Hollywood: MGM's Irving Thalberg, Twentieth Century's Darryl Zanuck, Universal's Carl Laemmle...