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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does not contain an open-shop clause. The Guild is forbidden by its constitution to accept the open-shop principle, although in contracts with other publishers it has frequently agreed to open-shop conditions by omitting any mention of a "Guild shop" (a modified closed shop). By bringing the home life of the Times into the open the Guild hopes to make it easier for Timesmen to join up, eventually to get a contract...
...Watertown, N. Y., went to a county fair in his surrey. It was a lousy fair and Mr. Liddy curled himself up on the seat of his surrey and went to sleep. When he awoke he felt remarkably refreshed, and he was smitten with an idea. He went home and forthwith invented the first bedsprings known...
Today is a nice but cloudy day-nice to go to a county fair and sleep on a surrey seat. Tomorrow it will likely rain-a good day to stay home and commune with Mr. Liddy's invention...
William K. Howard (Fire Over England). Director Howard (on a profit-sharing basis) wrote the original story, produced and directed Back Door to Heaven, laid it in his home town of St. Mary's, Ohio, at the last moment smeared himself with grease and enacted the part of the prosecuting attorney who sends Frankie to the chair. Such versatility caused Director Howard's friends at Manhattan's Stork Club, whose major-domo Jack Entratter got a policeman's part in the picture, to refer to him as "Noel Howard." Back Door to Heaven being what...
Last week for the first time in three years Grover Whalen had time to luxuriate among such playthings: he lay ill at home suffering from a heavy cold and a bad case of overwork. Since he became fair president in 1936 he has averaged a 12-to-16-hr. working day-selling hardheaded big businessmen the notion that it would pay them to put $157,000,000 into the Flushing Meadows...