Word: joes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week debate on the Robinson Compromise is to commence. Most opponents of the old bill declared themselves opposed to the new bill on principle, but observers agreed that if it could be brought to vote, Joe Robinson had lined up enough votes to pass it. First test of strength is expected when opponents try to refer the new bill to the Judiciary Committee where it would doubtless die. Second test of strength may come several weeks later when, after long but genuine debate, opponents may filibuster to prevent a vote...
...Joe Kennedy's job included: 1) canceling the old mail subsidies and settling up between the Government and some 40 shipping lines; 2) figuring out a new type of direct subsidy on a businesslike basis and getting the shipping lines to make new contracts. The first required tireless negotiation of claims and counterclaims. The second required Mr. Kennedy to figure out what shipping routes were necessary and reasonably economic to operate so as to be worth subsidizing, and to arrange for the building of enough up-to-date ships by the operators so that they will have a chance...
...Broadway revues of 1934 and 1936, suggests, this picture aims to present to cinemaddicts a gallery of heretofore unknown players. Unfortunately, of the numerous new faces in the cast, few belong to performers engaged in major roles. These are handled by such eminently unnovel entertainers as Milton Berle, Joe Penner, Harriet Hilliard, and Parkyakarkus...
...home to visit his mother in Detroit where he got a report that his father, a onetime Alabama cotton picker, missing for the last 22 years and long given up for dead, had been discovered in the Alabama State Asylum, where he had been since 1915. one year after Joe Louis' birth. Said Champion Louis: "Yes. he may be my father. I'm checking up, and if he is, I'm going to help him at once...
Champion Braddock's share was 50% of the gross receipts after State and Federal taxes had been deducted. Of his original $300,000, Braddock had to give half to his longtime manager, Joe Gould, who pays training expenses. Of his remaining $150,000 almost half went for taxes, $15,000 more to settle a debt with Promoter Jacobs...