Word: holliday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Newspaper Guild elected him delegate to the St. Paul convention, and Newsman Jennings arranged his vacation accordingly. At the last minute the city editor, managing editor and publisher all informed Jennings he could not be spared at that time. Said Hearst's Publisher Robert Paul Holliday: "The only way you can have this vacation money is to resign." Dean Jennings took his money, departed for the convention amid such violent words with his bosses about the Guild that 36 of the 40 Guild members on the staff resigned from the chapter...
Friends of Mr. Sweeney (Warner). Asaph Holliday (Charles Ruggles), hero of this picture, is a journalistic guppy, small, ashamed and ludicrous, writing timid editorials in a journal of opinion called The Balance. When his old college mate, Rixey (Eugene Pallette), arrives in town, a change takes place in Asaph. He calls up his assistant (Ann Dvorak) and orders her to come to dinner. At a swank night club, to which he gains admittance by saying to the doorman "We are friends of Mr. Sweeney," he gambles coolly with $1,000 chips under the impression that they cost $1. Finally, with...
...with it. He had seen his $100,000-a-year vice president James Moffett resign to help draft the code. And last week he saw Price-fixer Moffett go on the P. C. C. as one of the NRA's three representatives, saw Presidents Kingsbury of Sococal and Holliday of Sohio go on as representatives of the industry. Only other company committeemen were Presidents Reeser of Barnsdall, Dawes of Pure Oil and Director Beaty of Phillips. All others except Socony-Vacuum's Arnott were trade association heads. The voices of the big companies, which have long regarded...
...following White House appointments were announced: John H. Holliday of St. Louis, to be Vice Governor of the Philippines (now in Manila, Mr. Holliday is legal adviser to Governor General Roosevelt); Federal District Attorney George Emmerson Q. (for nothing) Johnson of Chicago, to be a U. S. District Judge (Attorney Johnson jailed Gangster Capone and nine other racketeers); Ernest B. Thomas of Rushville, Ind. to be a member of the Federal Farm Board (Rushville is the hometown of Republican Senate Leader Watson); Norman Armour, now Counsellor of Embassy at Paris, to be Minister to Haiti (a career diplomat, Mr. Armour...
Questionnaires upon which the survey is based will be obtainable at the Library desks at both Austin and Langdell Halls during the week and all law school men are requested by G. H. Holliday '89, secretary of the Law School, to fill out the blanks and return them to the office in Gannett House at the earliest possible moment...