Word: jed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court was when once more it sat in judgment on the question of whether much of the New Deal is legal or illegal. The case arose over a bale of cotton numbered 407784. One night a year ago at Clarksdale in Coahoma County, Miss., Fred Hastings allegedly asked Jed B. Earner, a Negro helper, to steal cotton from the warehouse of Federal Compress & Warehouse Co. Black Jed quietly rolled three bales of cotton, one of them No. 407784, out of the warehouse. He confessed that for these services he received...
Life's Too Short (by John Whedon & Arthur Caplan; Jed Harris, producer) tells the tale of a man named Fowler (John B. Litel) and his wife Helen (Doris Dalton) in "the great days of the New Deal." Fowler loses his job and Helen goes back to her old boss (Leslie Adams) who also happens to be her old lover. By successfully fooling himself as to his, his wife's and his boss's motives, Fowler does not find it hard to take up his old job again when it is offered. Anyhow, life is too short to worry about those...
When Marc Connelly, under the influence of Roark Bradford's Ol' Man Adam An' His Chillun, had finished The Green Pastures, he took it to Producer Jed Harris. Producer Harris was busy with Uncle Vanya (TIME, April 21, 1930). Producer Crosby Gaige also turned down the Connelly piece and the Theatre Guild would have none of it. But the play interested Rowland Stebbins, an inactive Wall Streeter who was having a fling at Broadway under the name of "Laurence Rivers." The character of "de Lawd" in Connelly's Negro miracle play pleasantly reminded music-loving...
Only one New Dealer from the 73rd Congress-Representative Disney-won his renomination in the first primary. Three others, Schoolteacher Willie Rogers, who campaigns as "Will Rogers," Schoolteacher Wilburn Cartwright and Lawyer Jed Johnson finally made the grade in last week's runoff. Discounting retirements, personal fights and local issues, the fact seemed to remain that in Oklahoma support of the New Deal by no means guaranteed a Democratic politician success at the polls...
...offer complications which are not very important, except as they create dramatic situations for Katharine. As for Miss Hepburn's complete domination of the picture, that is an open question. The cinema magnates have probably found that the public wants unadulterated . . . Hepburn. Broadway thought differently when it gave Jed Harris's play. "The Lake," no warm reception this winter because it seemed to be too much Hepburn. And our heroine really is a fine actress if she is used correctly...