Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queen Noino Sirs: In regard to your news item on Onions, TIME, Oct. 26, p. 84, please be advised that the "possibilities of a contest for the unsavory [very unAmerican! ] job of being U. S. 'Onion Queen' " has been explored by the Farmersville Junior Chamber of Commerce, Inc. through its staging of an annual onion festival...
...spent on armaments in 1935. The action of Mr. Kingsley's play, however, closes in 1927. In Ten Million Ghosts, Sir Basil Zaharoff is transformed into ''Zacharey'' (George Coulouris). France's great steel & armaments association, the Comite des Forges, is called "Universe Forges Inc." A young French poet named Andre (Orson Welles) is in love with Madeleine de Kruif (Barbara O'Neil). He becomes a War aviator, goes to the Briey sector in 1917, when the secret machinations of the munitioneers are in full swing. Forbidden to bomb the mines, he understands...
...their stock in a voting trust with an agreement, in effect, that when one of them died or retired the remaining certificate holders could: 1) buy his stock or 2) name another buyer. In practice, as the partners retired, the buyer elected was generally N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., which now has 117,000 such shares in its treasury...
Snapped President Batten in a public counterattack: "In today's newspapers appears a statement purporting to emanate from George H. Thornley, formerly a vice president of N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., to the effect that he has exercised an option to acquire stock control of this corporation. . . . Since he is seeking to establish this contention over the opposition of all parties concerned by litigation, the officers of the corporation are opposed to any attempt to try the case in the newspapers...
...this oldest and greatest of British cinema companies appeared to have been definitively settled last July, not in London, but in Manhattan. Joseph Michael Schenck, chairman of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., seated appropriately on a hotel divan between his brother, President Nicholas Michael Schenck of Loew's, Inc., and the president of Gaumont-British, Isidore Ostrer, announced a three-way Gaumont deal (TIME, Aug. 3). Nick Schenck's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's production subsidiary, was going to buy one-half of Twentieth Century-Fox's minority interest in the Gaumorit-British holding company. This...