Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thompson has another $1,463,000 which Congress, directly or indirectly, has already given the Public Health Service to start moving the National Institute of Health to Bethesda, Md. As soon as buildings are ready Dr. Thompson will move his staff of 650. He no longer does research himself. "I sort of keep an eye on my boys, and help to get the money which enables them to keep going." But he still gets into his old "lab" clothes weekends-to tend the zinnias, phlox and anemones around his home at Chevy Chase. Ground has already been broken...
...Zola, in time, come great fame, wealth, position and what he takes for contentment. Some years later, the young radical has become a fat and fussy literary lion. His greatest satisfaction is no longer tilting at literary and political windmills but the prospect of election to the august French Academy. While Cezanne, after dinner one night, is telling Zola that his head is as overstuffed as his stomach, L'Affaire Dreyfus is having its beginnings. The General Staff of the French Army, discovering that someone has been selling military secrets to Germany, looks around for a scapegoat, finds...
...begs his aid. All his old fighting instincts aroused, Zola writes his famous editorial J'accuse ("I accuse"), charging the army with conspiracy and daring anyone to try him for treason. The army takes the dare. Zola's trial lasts 30 minutes on the screen, with speeches longer than cinemaddicts are supposed by most Hollywood producers to be willing to hear. Zola's rhetoric is no match for the mass of lying evidence and the judge's prejudice. Convicted, he flees to England. But presently a new French Government orders the Dreyfus case reopened...
...Manhattan offices there met with Frank Gillmore the heads of all A. A. A. A. unions, among them Screen Actors' Executive Secretary Kenneth Thomson, an ambitious B-picture cinemactor whose talents as organizer have exceeded his talents on the screen. When the meeting was over, Equity no longer had the leading role in the theatrical unionization show. A new strong A. A. A had come forth to play the part. ' That part will consist in being pretty much the One Big Union of show busines assuming full responsibility for jurisdictional disputes, integrating the unions into a harmonious structure...
...comfort to an old and long stagnant motor-maker. But the true state of Hupp was discernible last week not in its profit & loss account but in the balance sheet and in its big plant off Detroit's East Grand Boulevard. In both of these stagnation lurked no longer...