Word: inc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pronoun did not refer solely to smart Cliff Knoble. Signer and buyer of the advertisement was The Middle' Class Alliance Inc., composed of small merchants, professional men and upper-salaried white-collar workers who thought they, too, had been caught in the middle. Promoter Knoble placed another full-page advertisement to appear in the Free Press this week, and he hoped to place more if $3 annual dues and contributions flow in properly...
Last winter, while balletomanes gasped in the sidelines, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo split itself neatly into two rival ballet organizations. To one of them, newly backed by several midwest socialites including Yeast-Tycoon Julius Fleischmann under the name World-Art, Inc., went famed Choreographer Leonide Massine. Also to be drawn under the World-Art aegis was the Monte Carlo Ballet of Monte Carlo. To the opposite camp, sup ported by Prince Serge Obolensky and cohorts of Manhattan socialites, went rangy Colonel de Basil, a great deal of scenery and the right to produce most of the important ballets...
Three weeks ago, Universal, reduced again to World-Art, Inc., was starting on a new scent, and was preparing to sue Educational Ballets. But Educational Ballets, backed by Baron Frederic D'Erlanger, jumped the gun and opened a season of ballet at Covent Garden with the original de Basil ballet's No. 2 choreographer, David Lichine, as director. The flittery world of the ballet having sprawled into another grand écart, World-Art announced that it would open this week across the street at Drury Lane with Massine in charge. Meantime Ballet's forgetful and forgotten...
Into the Potomac freight yards just outside of Washington. D. C. last week rolled Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc. Off the tent cars came rain-wet canvas to dry in the sun. lest spontaneous combustion destroy what labor combustion had left of the Greatest Show on Earth. Representative Robert Low Bacon of Long Island surveyed the sorry scene, declared through G. O. P.'s publicity office: "Not even the great Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus can compete with the circus the New Deal is now giving...
...rival unions are the Screen Writers Guild Inc. (membership 502) and Screen Playwrights Inc. (membership 132). Armed like any workers with the tools of their trade, words, the screenwriters went to war before election. John Lee Mahin, president of Screen Playwrights Inc. advertised in Hollywood's Variety: "Any charge or implication that Screen Playwrights is a company union or in any way producer controlled is a lie. . . ." On another page in the same magazine, Screenwriter Gene Fowler, addressed to Dudley Nichols, President of the Guild, his apologies for ever having joined Screen Playwrights: "As . . . an erratic old gentleman...